From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6141 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Oct 2003 17:10:45 -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 23386 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2003 17:10:45 -0000 From: Brian Jackson Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:10:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310031034.39985.iggy@gentoo.org> <3F7DA27C.1010302@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <3F7DA27C.1010302@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline X-UID: 165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310031210.45258.iggy@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 6cdc399d-1a16-404e-90cf-abda1c6f250c X-Archives-Hash: 58c6158a20d7b87a5f37c70cd7c69a1e 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 > > -- Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net Gentoo -- http://gentoo.brianandsara.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list