From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ql31a-0003M4-Dg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:03:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E8C021C2BE for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pima.mpagano.com (unknown [67.228.218.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB8621C0EE for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:45:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pima.mpagano.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F58854888D for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:45:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mpagano.com Received: from pima.mpagano.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pima.mpagano.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yePJO49rOfLj for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:45:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from comanche.localnet (pool-71-127-246-33.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net [71.127.246.33]) by pima.mpagano.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3CDC5548578 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:45:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Pagano To: gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] virtual/linux-sources-2.6 Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:45:10 -0400 Message-ID: <7330239.BtsD8IRUK8@comanche> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.1 (Linux/3.0.0-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20012.14411.851203.673718@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <4E2AF23A.8050103@gentoo.org> <4E2B0A80.6030204@gentoo.org> <20012.14411.851203.673718@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5b2bfad11a1d4b415c24342304c27537 On Sunday 24 July 2011 17:20:43 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > > On 07/23/2011 07:09 PM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote: > >> Currently virtual/linux-sources-2.6 depends on sys-kernel/foo-2.6*, > >> should we create virtual/linux-sources-3.0 (and start fixing > >> ebuilds depending on =virtual/linux-sources-2.6) or just change > >> virtual/linux-sources-2.6 to depend on >=2.6 ? Opinions? > > Currently version 3.0 is only available with vanilla-sources and > gentoo-sources. Therefore the problem is that virtual/linux-sources-3 > would pull in one of these even for users of other *-sources (e.g. > hardened). > > On the other hand, allowing versions 3.* as dependency of > virtual/linux-sources-2.6 might be confusing. > > Therefore, my suggestion would be as follows: > 1. Temporarily change the dependency in virtual/linux-sources-2.6 > to >=2.6 in order to resolve the current issues with dependencies. > 2. Later, when most of *-sources are available in version 3.*, revert > linux-sources-2.6 to the current dependency and create > virtual/linux-sources-3. (I think the version should be just 3 and > not 3.0, unless you want a virtual for 3.0, 3.1, etc.) > > Or, a completely different approach: Drop the versioning of the > virtual altogether and have only virtual/linux-sources-0. (This might > cause some minor problems for users of 2.4 profiles, but I'd guess > that the remaining users are experienced enough to handle that.) > > > CC'ed maintainers / herd. > > Thanks. > > Ulrich Ulrich, thanks for thinking this through. I do like the #1, #2 combo, myself. -- Mike Pagano Gentoo Developer - Kernel Project E-Mail : mpagano@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : EEE2 601D 0763 B60F 848C 9E14 3C33 C650 B576 E4E3 Public Key : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xB576E4E3&op=index