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On 07/24/2011 01:45 PM, Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> On Sunday 24 July 2011 17:20:43 Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: |
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>>> On 07/23/2011 07:09 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: |
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>>>> Currently virtual/linux-sources-2.6 depends on sys-kernel/foo-2.6*, |
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>>>> should we create virtual/linux-sources-3.0 (and start fixing |
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>>>> ebuilds depending on =virtual/linux-sources-2.6) or just change |
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>>>> virtual/linux-sources-2.6 to depend on >=2.6 ? Opinions? |
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>> Currently version 3.0 is only available with vanilla-sources and |
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>> gentoo-sources. Therefore the problem is that virtual/linux-sources-3 |
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>> would pull in one of these even for users of other *-sources (e.g. |
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>> hardened). |
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>> On the other hand, allowing versions 3.* as dependency of |
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>> virtual/linux-sources-2.6 might be confusing. |
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>> Therefore, my suggestion would be as follows: |
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>> 1. Temporarily change the dependency in virtual/linux-sources-2.6 |
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>> to >=2.6 in order to resolve the current issues with dependencies. |
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>> 2. Later, when most of *-sources are available in version 3.*, revert |
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>> linux-sources-2.6 to the current dependency and create |
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>> virtual/linux-sources-3. (I think the version should be just 3 and |
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>> not 3.0, unless you want a virtual for 3.0, 3.1, etc.) |
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>> Or, a completely different approach: Drop the versioning of the |
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>> virtual altogether and have only virtual/linux-sources-0. (This might |
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>> cause some minor problems for users of 2.4 profiles, but I'd guess |
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>> that the remaining users are experienced enough to handle that.) |
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>>> CC'ed maintainers / herd. |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Ulrich |
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> Ulrich, thanks for thinking this through. I do like the #1, #2 combo, myself. |
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I like the idea of dropping versioning altogether to avoid the problems |
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of upstream changing versioning again --- what happens when 4.x comes |
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out? But a quick grep of the tree shows atoms like this: |
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<virtual/linux-sources-2.5 |
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It may be more than just minor problems. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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