From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA751381F3 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F6AAE086D; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56CBEE07FD for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (c-24-118-58-181.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.118.58.181]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EF1E33E71E for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:11:22 -0500 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration. Message-ID: <20130717211122.GC8113@comet> References: <20130701164149.131490f8@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20130701193511.1ca62f0c@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <51D1C1CA.6060402@gentoo.org> <4405704.0VxOCSfIyQ@comanche> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="m51xatjYGsM+13rf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4405704.0VxOCSfIyQ@comanche> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: e913b8d7-3e99-45b5-a24d-c5a9824d3037 X-Archives-Hash: 5839e13f957ea25e2910c6c141b39c25 --m51xatjYGsM+13rf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 20:19 Thu 04 Jul , Mike Pagano wrote: > I have 'relaxed' a tad about what I think should be in g-s, but maybe it = has=20 > gone a bit farther than I wanted it too. >=20 > I would like to see a "-experimental" use flag and base,extras,geek (what= ever)=20 > so that g-s goes back to what it's original goal was with nothing non-ups= tream=20 > unless the user does a configuration change themselves. >=20 > This will actually help us solve both issues. >=20 > 1) it will allow us to pull g-s back to it's original goal as a minimal= =20 > kernel sources with upstream only patches. Original? Not true. gentoo-sources has, for ages, carried feature=20 patches that were considered useful to Gentoo as a whole or to releng in=20 particular. It's carried whole filesystems like XFS, it's carried EVMS, it's carried=20 pretty much the whole ck- patchset (Con Kolivas), grsec, FreeS/WAN and=20 OpenS/WAN, the bootsplash stuff, etc. > 2) we can carry some patches from upstreams trees that possibly aren't ye= t in=20 > -next, or not yet accepted to mainline but do provide some benefit to a s= maller=20 > group of our users. (Thinking about our thinkpad patches) --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Analyst, RedMonk --m51xatjYGsM+13rf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlHnCHoACgkQXVaO67S1rttvfACffPPniKQXbBNekd1awizQ8fip IngAoN869lB3nBYaIvrPMz3obvXFdJL5 =Th+J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m51xatjYGsM+13rf--