* Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels?
@ 2003-07-24 13:38 99% ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2003-07-24 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Thursday 24 July 2003 15:07, Matt Rickard wrote:
> > I fully support the opinions stated above, and I simply cannot
> > comprehend what the big deal with ~arch masking vanilla-sources is.
> > Even *considering* the option of a separate package is ridiculous. As
> > long as developers are careful enough to not remove the ~arch mask
> > from any _pre kernel, I am perfectly fine, and I believe there
> > wouldn't be anyone who isn't fine. What are we trying to do-- make
> > sure people who insist on running the *unstable* profile actually
> > don't get the "unstable" sources.
>
> Well the fact is that an unstable kernel can be a whole lot more
> problematic than an unstable userland package. With userland, if it
> crashes, oh well, you can start it up again. With an unstable kernel
> you run the risk of hard locks and corrupted filesystems.
As far as I know we don't actually compile any kernel automatically. That
means that it still requires user action to actually install a prekernel.
That means that a user must actually decide on running a prekernel
Paul
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