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On Tuesday 31 March 2015 16:45:08 Bob Wya wrote: |
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> Neil, |
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> (a) Should I download the vanilla 3.18.1 kernel sources and apply all the |
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> gentoo-sources tar-ball patches in numerical order?? |
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> (b) I tried downloading the vanilla 3.18.8 kernel. But of course the |
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> earlier gentoo-sources 3.18.1 - 3.18.6 patches don't apply cleanly... Will |
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> I get to the same place if I ignore these?? Or should I go with option |
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> (a) |
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You didn't read the first thing Neil wrote, did you? Or did you just decide |
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to ignore it? |
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> On 31 March 2015 at 12:00, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:51:11 +0100, Bob Wya wrote: |
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> > |
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> > lease don't top-post, it is frowned upon on this list, and for good |
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> > reason. |
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> > > Simply changing the ebuild version to 3.18.1 doesn't work. The |
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> > > kernel-2 |
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> > > eclass simply won't allow one to build a gentoo-sources 3.18.x kernel |
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> > > lower than / before 3.18.9 now. (Try it if you don't believe me...) |
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> > > That was the first thing I tried. :-) |
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> > I wasn't suggesting renaming the ebuild but downloading the older |
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> > version. However, on checking the content I see it still uses the |
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> > kernel-2 eclass. You can deal with this by downloading the older version |
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> > of the eclass from CVS and putting it in an overlay, but it's probably |
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> > easier to just apply the patches manually in this case. |
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> > |
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> > gentoo-sources uses both the base and extra patchsets from genpatches. |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Neil Bothwick |
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> > |
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> > Fragile. Do not turn umop ap1sdn! |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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