From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21647 invoked by uid 1002); 24 Jul 2003 13:49:25 -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 15564 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2003 13:49:25 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:49:21 +0200 From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030724154921.77b528ec.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> In-Reply-To: <20030724085644.00cf6766.frogger@gentoo.org> References: <20030723121603.11ab807e.frogger@gentoo.org> <20030724082857.GB980@Dimosys.mech.kuleuven.ac.be> <20030724085644.00cf6766.frogger@gentoo.org> Organization: Fasmz X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? X-Archives-Salt: 8b8f5c4b-beca-400e-a3b2-ff3eaa8b96f3 X-Archives-Hash: 9f8a2de1c69b912d3d7d25c0d6ebad77 On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:56:44 -0400 Matt Rickard wrote: > package.mask is what I was really trying to avoid. It's always a pain > to have to unmask a package if you want to use it. It's not anymore such a pain with custom package.(un)mask, this feature just lacks documentation. I personnaly thinks using package.mask to mask prereleases of kernels is the better solution. This way, a user has much more possibilities to control which versions he wants to use: o Does he only want stable version? He has no changes to do. o Does he want to test everything? He can unmask "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources" o Does he want to test _rc but not _pre, in 2.4.22 branch? He can unmask ">=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.22_rc1" and mask ">sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.22*" o etc. There is no such to specify a custom policy with ~arch masking. -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list