Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Grsecurity Poll

[Markus Nigbur <pYrania@c0ffeine.de>]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:02:03 -0400
Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:46:46AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:48, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > > Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome.
> > 
> Perhaps a silly question, but why are patches rolled as their own kernels at
> all? Seems to my little brain (yes, it's real small when it comes to these
> matters) that it would almost make more sense to offer the vanilla kernel as
> is, then have each of these (currently their own ebuilds) patches as add on
> ebuilds, such as emerge vanillia-kernel, emerge grsecurity-patch, emerge
> nvidia-patch, etc. After all, it's not like the ebuild for the kernel
> compiles it in the first place, and as far as I know these patches
> add/replace to the existing structure, right? Just a random thought, feel
> free to ignore :)

we had a discussion about this on bugzilla with ck-sources 2.4.21.
it would be nice to introduce some local flags for the kernel patches.
Bug #22822

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