From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14833 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Oct 2003 16:22:04 -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 11145 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2003 16:22:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3F7DA27C.1010302@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:23:24 -0400 From: Brad Laue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Jackson Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310031034.39985.iggy@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310031034.39985.iggy@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 9dec27ae-332b-4689-8bb3-a158d8835ebb X-Archives-Hash: ef267eb666f396d9f009ee91f4fe8d8d 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). 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. Brad -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list