Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels?

[Matt Rickard <frogger@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:45:55 -0500
Jay Pfeifer <pfeifer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> My thoughts... also posted on bug 25107...
> 
> best just to put a pkg_postinst warning similar to the one from 
> http://www.kernel.org/prepatch.html. I think this is better than
> putting the ebuilds in the package.mask. I would also want the package
> to be 'sys-kernel/vanilla-prepatch-sources' or 
> 'sys-kernel/prepatch-sources'. Probably the first. This would keep
> users wanting the latest stable version, as deemed by kernel.org, from
> accidentally emerging the wrong vanilla-sources. 
> 

I put it in 'sys-kernel/vanilla-prepatch-sources' and added a
pkg_postinst warning.  Just committed it and closed bug 25107.

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Matt Rickard
frogger@gentoo.org

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