From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28746 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 00:41:40 -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 5667 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 00:41:40 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:41:27 -0700 From: "C. Brewer" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20031003174127.2f0bc925.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> In-Reply-To: <1065209212.11728.2.camel@sfa234225.richmond.edu> References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <3F7D4741.40603@gentoo.org> <20031003111254.15c5ef72.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <1065209212.11728.2.camel@sfa234225.richmond.edu> X-mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5claws Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Multipart_Fri__3_Oct_2003_17_41_27_-0700_=.23KqiPCwiywl1R" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: ae51388e-62c8-4936-b856-12a8a49e01ba X-Archives-Hash: a61a5557cbf04f7dc821ee6f820a5873 --Multipart_Fri__3_Oct_2003_17_41_27_-0700_=.23KqiPCwiywl1R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:26:52 -0400 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > A problem is that people who release kernel patches do not do so at the > same time (e.g. Con Kolivas's second patchset for 2.4.22 is not released > at the same time as Alan Cox's third patchset for 2.4.22 etc etc, so the > version numbers would not work out properly for third-party patchsets, > and people wouldn't know when upgrades were available. I had thought about that myself, and quite honestly figured two approaches- bump a revision on patch changes, which would have the side effect of forcing an upgrade on people who don't require it, or more realistically, people using sources other than vanilla you would assume to be atleast tracking the changes somewhat, so as to be notified via the patchmaker, or if a little blurb was added to the changelog when a patch was updated. Currently, I still track changes in the dev-sources by browsing kernel.org every day, even though yall have consistently provided updated ebuilds darn near immediately. So if there was maybe a little info blurb people could look at to know when a patchset was updated, it would work out better with the useflags. -- Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. --Multipart_Fri__3_Oct_2003_17_41_27_-0700_=.23KqiPCwiywl1R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fhc8GmszwkJY878RAkmZAKC8DswGtJZkpssUdl4VQMx6cxbyjwCglGxG SZLNnNrMA8y8767ELMJgkT4= =oLUK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Multipart_Fri__3_Oct_2003_17_41_27_-0700_=.23KqiPCwiywl1R--