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From: Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o>
To: gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:03:34
Message-Id: 7330239.BtsD8IRUK8@comanche
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sunday 24 July 2011 17:20:43 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > >>>>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
3 > > On 07/23/2011 07:09 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote:
4 > >> Currently virtual/linux-sources-2.6 depends on sys-kernel/foo-2.6*,
5 > >> should we create virtual/linux-sources-3.0 (and start fixing
6 > >> ebuilds depending on =virtual/linux-sources-2.6) or just change
7 > >> virtual/linux-sources-2.6 to depend on >=2.6 ? Opinions?
8 >
9 > Currently version 3.0 is only available with vanilla-sources and
10 > gentoo-sources. Therefore the problem is that virtual/linux-sources-3
11 > would pull in one of these even for users of other *-sources (e.g.
12 > hardened).
13 >
14 > On the other hand, allowing versions 3.* as dependency of
15 > virtual/linux-sources-2.6 might be confusing.
16 >
17 > Therefore, my suggestion would be as follows:
18 > 1. Temporarily change the dependency in virtual/linux-sources-2.6
19 > to >=2.6 in order to resolve the current issues with dependencies.
20 > 2. Later, when most of *-sources are available in version 3.*, revert
21 > linux-sources-2.6 to the current dependency and create
22 > virtual/linux-sources-3. (I think the version should be just 3 and
23 > not 3.0, unless you want a virtual for 3.0, 3.1, etc.)
24 >
25 > Or, a completely different approach: Drop the versioning of the
26 > virtual altogether and have only virtual/linux-sources-0. (This might
27 > cause some minor problems for users of 2.4 profiles, but I'd guess
28 > that the remaining users are experienced enough to handle that.)
29 >
30 > > CC'ed maintainers / herd.
31 >
32 > Thanks.
33 >
34 > Ulrich
35
36 Ulrich, thanks for thinking this through. I do like the #1, #2 combo, myself.
37
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Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>