From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9390 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Jul 2003 16:16:15 -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 16125 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2003 16:16:14 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:16:03 -0400 From: Matt Rickard To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030723121603.11ab807e.frogger@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? X-Archives-Salt: aa33167a-ec08-4dcb-9445-7673137c36e9 X-Archives-Hash: 0e60ed2dafe7e27ce93584ee78334ac2 Portage currently does not contain any vanilla prerelease kernels (i.e. 2.4.22_pre7). Bug 25107 is a request for this, and it seems reasonable to have these kernels in portage, since we have pretty much every other kernel branch you could think of in there :) I'm wondering what's the best way to handle these? First option is to put them in vanilla-sources, for example, vanilla-sources-2.4.22_pre7.ebuild. If we ~ mask them, people using the unstable profile will get these prerelease kernels if merging vanilla-sources. I'm not sure this is desired behavior, however, it IS the unstable profile :) We could also package.mask them here, this might emphasize the fact that they are not supported. However, _pre kernels are generally quite stable, probably more so than many of the other kernel branches we provide in portage. Another option is to create a separate category for these, something like pre-vanilla-sources. This has the benefit that people who want vanilla will get only vanilla, and not a prerelease -- regardless of which profile they are using. Any comments or suggestions on this? I'm hoping for some kind of consensus on where these should be put. Thanks. -- Matt Rickard frogger@gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list