Hi Kumba, On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:37:15PM -0500, Kumba wrote: > fwiw, I've got mips-sources modified to follow the upstream kernel.org > notation of 2.6.x.y (even though our primary upstream, linux-mips.org, > doesn't utilize this notation at all). mips-sources doesn't use genpatches, so the two can not really be compared. > There's logic in the ebuild that can switch between using -rc, point > releases (the .y ones) and standard versions, and it modifies the logic to > fetch the appropriate patch(es) from upstream to save on what we need to > upload to the gentoo mirrors. The logic for doing so in genpatches based sources are in kernel-2.eclass. Regards, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd