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* RE: [gentoo-sparc] Re: 2.6 kernel
@ 2006-02-24 21:52 Longman, Bill
  2006-02-24 22:08 ` Mike Owen
  2006-02-25  0:05 ` Gustavo Zacarias
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Longman, Bill @ 2006-02-24 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: 'gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org'

> nevermind, after futher searching it seems that all the 2.6 
> kernels are masked. what a drag....
> 
> 
> On 2/24/06, Nick Smith <nick.smith79@gmail.com> wrote:
> > got no response on my other thread, so how about a simple question.
> > what would i have to do to upgrade to 2.6 from 2.4? is it a 
> matter of 
> > just downloading the vanilla-sources for sparc and going 
> through the 
> > config/compile process? would i have to do something 
> special to get it 
> > to work?

That doesn't mean you can't play with it, though. Just pull it down and
compile it. It's rather frustrating, but it's good practice, no? Who doesn't
like compiling kernels on a 166MHz SPARC?

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" emerge -f --oneshot gentoo-sources

should get you the latest 2.6.15-r5. Tweak command line as needed for other
versions.
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* RE: [gentoo-sparc] Re: 2.6 kernel
@ 2006-02-25  1:17 Longman, Bill
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Longman, Bill @ 2006-02-25  1:17 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: 'gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org'

> > That doesn't mean you can't play with it, though. Just pull it down 
> > and compile it. It's rather frustrating, but it's good 
> practice, no? 
> > Who doesn't like compiling kernels on a 166MHz SPARC?
> > 
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" emerge -f --oneshot gentoo-sources
> > 
> > should get you the latest 2.6.15-r5. Tweak command line as 
> needed for 
> > other versions.
> 
> Please don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, it's generally bad, you've 
> got package.keywords (man 5 portage) as a better solution.
> That said 2.6 kernels don't work fine in the stability 
> department, lately it seems only SBUS-based machines are the 
> ones affected.
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/sunhw.xml is a work 
> in progress hardware compatibility list where you can check 
> how things are going on the 2.6 front.
> Of course it's still incomplete and feedback is welcome.
> Don't say "excellent stability on X" unless you really did 
> extensive tests.

If you want Portage to actually manage a package, yes, I agree completely,
you should NOT use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. 

If you just want to use portage to grab the files for you (-f --oneshot),
then, heck, just throw in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. You'll still have to manually
move things around and compile them, so where is the problem?

If he *did* put "~sparc" in his package.keywords file for gentoo-sources,
then he would be, in effect, telling portage that he specifically wants to
be able to use the ~ versions and he accepts the responsibility thereof. And
Portage will then dutifully keep him updated on all new updates to this
package.

How else would you "beta test" a package? I've been using this method for
about two years and I have found it to work well for me. If I really want to
use the package later on, I put it in the correct package.* file and make it
"official".

On a second point, thanks for the above HCL pointer. I'll add notes on my
U30 this weekend.

Bill
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* [gentoo-sparc] 2.6 kernel
@ 2006-02-24 20:41 Nick Smith
  2006-02-24 20:44 ` [gentoo-sparc] " Nick Smith
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Nick Smith @ 2006-02-24 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-sparc

got no response on my other thread, so how about a simple question. 
what would i have to do to upgrade to 2.6 from 2.4? is it a matter of
just downloading the vanilla-sources for sparc and going through the
config/compile process? would i have to do something special to get it
to work?

thanks

Nick

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2006-02-25 20:11     ` gentuxx
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