Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree

[Brian Jackson <iggy@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 03 October 2003 11:23 am, Brad Laue wrote:
> Brian Jackson wrote:
> > USE flags is a bad way to do things, lets say you have 116 patches (the 
latest 
> > pfeifer-sources does). If the 32nd patch is optional based on a use flag, 
it 
> > could take away parts that a later patch relies on, which would make the 
> > entire patchset fail. Now obviously this has been working since the 
current 
> > gentoo-sources and older pfeifer-sources does this, but it only works 
because 
> > all the patches have to be specially diffed in just the right order. At 
> > present time we don't have the manpower to do this.
> > 
> 
> Fair enough; three patchsets would probably equal the amount of work 
> required to maintain three kernels. In that case maybe expanding 
> gentoo-sources' patchset to cover the fundamentals (it's my 
> understanding XFS among other things I'm after are in pfeifer-sources, 
> it's just a matter of getting it out the door).

livewire is supposed to start working on gs-sources again, though I don't know 
if it will have everything you are after.

> 
> If grsec-sources and others do exist though, I think a lot of the 
> gentoo-sources stuff should exist as a subset, though - when I switched 
> from gentoo- to xfs-sources a great deal of iptables functionality was 
> missing - thankfully grsecurity was still there, though.
> 
> Another good idea would be to document the content of the kernels on 
> gentoo.org to make it easier to choose from.

you mean like
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kernel/kernel.xml
(linked of the project page, which is in turn linked off the fornt page)
and
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml
(linked off the above kernel page)

> 
> Brad
> 
> 

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