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On sön, 2004-11-28 at 05:44 +0000, Ed Grimm wrote: |
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> There may be others which are more problematic. I haven't seen Gentoo |
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> using them, but many kernels are distributed with -[a-z][a-z]\d+ |
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> versions, which indicate which alternate maintainer managed the |
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> additional patches beyond the standard kernel version - which is newer, |
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> -mm5 or -bk15? The world may never know. (It's only determinate for |
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> specific kernel versions, and frequently it's an apples and lemonade |
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> comparison, as they don't address the same issues.) |
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Would it be to much overhead if the ebuilds just linked to previous |
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versions instead? Like the ineed stuff of the init scripts. This way no |
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no version parsing at all would be needed. |
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-John |
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