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Hi Kumba, |
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:37:15PM -0500, Kumba wrote: |
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> fwiw, I've got mips-sources modified to follow the upstream kernel.org |
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> notation of 2.6.x.y (even though our primary upstream, linux-mips.org, |
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> doesn't utilize this notation at all). |
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mips-sources doesn't use genpatches, so the two can not really be |
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compared. |
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> There's logic in the ebuild that can switch between using -rc, point |
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> releases (the .y ones) and standard versions, and it modifies the logic to |
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> fetch the appropriate patch(es) from upstream to save on what we need to |
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> upload to the gentoo mirrors. |
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The logic for doing so in genpatches based sources are in kernel-2.eclass. |
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Regards, |
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Brix |
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o> |
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