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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources reverted to 2.6.39-r8 :(
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:37:18
Message-Id: CAA2qdGUVTjMS6429SEc1oQ2Gxa70S+O-rR9oDa0-LpNmwjcvew@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources reverted to 2.6.39-r8 :( by Alan McKinnon
1 On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:26, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:15:02 +0700
3 > Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Hmm, just ran eix-sync followed by emerge -pvuD @world...
6 >>
7 >> And I was unpleasantly surprised when I see
8 >> sys-kernel/hardened-sources going back from the currently installed
9 >> (and booting) 2.6.39-r13 to -r8
10 >>
11 >> Changelog does not described why -r13 is pulled.
12 >
13 > Actually it does :-)
14 >
15 >  13 Sep 2011; Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>
16 >  -hardened-sources-2.6.32-r64.ebuild,
17 >  -hardened-sources-2.6.39-r12.ebuild,
18 >  -hardened-sources-2.6.39-r13.ebuild, -hardened-sources-3.0.3.ebuild:
19 >  Removed deprecated versions
20 >
21 >
22
23 Yeah, it's "deprecated", but what does that mean, exactly?
24
25 > Maybe -r13 just never made it to stable at all?
26 >
27
28 It's never stable, yes. But somehow I'm more comfortable with -r13
29 than -r8 (5 revisions).
30
31 > If it's working fine for you and you are happy with -r13, then leave it
32 > alone. It will continue to boot until you decide to upgrade to
33 > something else. Maybe you should list that version explicitly in world
34 > just in case it accidentally goes away with a hasty --depclean
35 >
36
37 I see. I'll just keep the -r13 sources then.
38
39 Thanks!
40
41 Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources reverted to 2.6.39-r8 :( Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>