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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:08, S. Schwartz wrote: |
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> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > which patches? |
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> > What would you missing? |
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> I don't really know, not even if those would be important to me. But I |
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> kind of trust into the work of the Gentoo-guys and believe the |
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> gentoo-sources are tested more intensive than vanilla sources (that's |
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> just hearsay). |
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> > And since the problem does not appear with vanilla kernels, it is worth a |
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> > try. |
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> Not really. Firstly, in portage only vanilla-sources-2.6.15.1 is |
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> declared as stable (and I won't use an unstable one). Since I never had |
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> problems with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-rsomething the whole procedure might |
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> work, but that would be kinda lame news to me. |
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> Secondly, I don't think avoiding the problem fixes it. I might have |
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> similar problems in the future if patching isn't done properly with |
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> certain packages that tend to come with problems (e.g. nvidia stuff). |
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> |
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if the problem is in the gentoo-sources itself, you can try as many nvidia |
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drivers as you want. |
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Besides: |
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ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/vanilla-sources/ |
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ChangeLog vanilla-sources-2.6.14.4.ebuild |
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files vanilla-sources-2.6.14.5.ebuild |
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Manifest vanilla-sources-2.6.14.6.ebuild |
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metadata.xml vanilla-sources-2.6.15.1.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.0.40-r1.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.3.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.2.26-r1.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.4.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.4.21.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.5.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.4.28.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.6.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.4.30.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.15.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.4.31.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.11.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.4.32.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.1.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.6.10.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.5.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.6.11.11.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.9.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.6.11.12.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.16.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.6.11.8.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.17_rc1.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.6.12.5.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.17_rc2.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.6.13.4.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.17_rc3.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.6.14.2.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.5.ebuild |
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vanilla-sources-2.6.14.3.ebuild vanilla-sources-2.6.7.ebuild |
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there is A LOT after .15 - many of them with security fixes. |
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