From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1296 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Aug 2003 18:02:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29406 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2003 18:02:55 -0000 From: Alvaro Figueroa To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030724082857.GB980@Dimosys.mech.kuleuven.ac.be> References: <20030723121603.11ab807e.frogger@gentoo.org> <20030724082857.GB980@Dimosys.mech.kuleuven.ac.be> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1061833403.3759.4.camel@vienna> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:43:27 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? X-Archives-Salt: c5f182b7-fdda-458c-9e56-5fe5b211ef4a X-Archives-Hash: 799e737fd55a673c0f9840269e9811c4 On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:28, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > Personally, I would go for package.mask I like this solution better. I don't know how many of you know that on some 2.4 version, Marcelo forgot to add a patch that was added to -rc4, to the realeased kernel. So I had to use this kernel on splack (slackware for sparc) instead of the released kernel, because this patch was extremely important on archs other than intel. If you had a package mask, this could be handleded more gracefully. -- Alvaro Figueroa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list