Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o>
To: overige.vk@×××××××.be
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] downloading kernel sources with portage
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:21:21
Message-Id: 1080512464.6861.109.camel@lisa.thedoh.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] downloading kernel sources with portage by Bart Van Kerkhove
1 On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 13:02, Bart Van Kerkhove wrote:
2 > Hi there,
3 >
4 > Ive been using Gentoo Linux for about a year now and one thing that has
5 > been bothering me is that every time a new kernel comes out portage
6 > downloads the full version of the new kernel instead of a patch. Since
7 > every kernel gets stored in distfiles it would be very easy to use the
8 > older kernel and only download the patch.
9
10 On a related topic, see Deltup project at deltup.sf.net.
11 --
12 Regards,
13 -Lisa
14 <Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur>

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] downloading kernel sources with portage Michael Kohl <citizen428@××××××.org>