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Chris Lieb wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:58 -0600, Chris Lieb wrote: |
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>>> I don't want to do UnionFS since that requires me to patch the kernel, |
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>>> which is more work than I have the time for. |
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>> cd /usr/src/linux |
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>> patch -p1 </path/to/patchfile |
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>> You must be *really* short of time ;-) |
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> My concern is more about making my own ebuild (based off of |
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> gentoo-sources) that will patch the kernel source for me so that I can |
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> easily distribute this patched kernel source to all of my computers. I |
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> need the process to be easy so that whom ever succeeds me doesn't have |
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> to learn much more than just running a couple of scripts that I wrote. |
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> Even how, I catch enough crap from my boss already for spending so much |
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> time tinkering with servers instead of programming :) |
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> |
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> Is there a guide out there for rolling my own kernel ebuild? |
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> |
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> Chris |
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Take a peek at aufs on the sunrise overlay. It has a section that |
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patches the kernel, dependent on kernel version and USE flags. It looks |
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like it just informs the user that the kernel was patched. |
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HTH, |
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Roy |
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