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 Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject: Gentoo-Sources with 2.6-Kernel - When? |
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I was wondering, how long it is going to take, until there will be Gentoo-Sources with the 2.6-Kernel?
Right now I have a 2.4-Kernel, which won't compile anymore and so I thought, before messing with that, I could just wait, until a Gentoo-2.6-Kernel is declared stable (as updating from a 2.4-Kernel to a 2.6-Kernel needs some work, doesn't it?).
Or is it safe and recommended to use any other 2.6-kernel available? Which one do you suggest?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| AFAIK gentoo-dev-sources == gentoo-sources of 2.6 family. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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-> gentoo-dev-sources should give you what you are looking for; currently at 2.6.5 (although its been a while with no sign of 2.6.6  )
-> If you are feeling a little more inclined to test; then I use mm-sources. Although they give me some problems with usb with amd64.
I have seen a complete list of kernels, and the explainations for each ... but I can't remember the url, sorry.
The above are a good starting point
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| jkt wrote: | | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml |
That's it
You beat me to it again 
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hugelmopf
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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OK, thanks a lot. I was mislead by the name "development sources", but now I read, that these are declared stable, so I will give them a try.
PS: that's amazingly quick answering  |
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DaveArb
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| scoobydu wrote: | -> gentoo-dev-sources should give you what you are looking for; currently at 2.6.5 (although its been a while with no sign of 2.6.6 )
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development-sources (note !gentoo-dev-sources) is marked stable at 2.6.6-rc1 for quite some time now. I run a corporate gateway router on it, zero problems for... 31 days now.
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Admiral LSD
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| scoobydu wrote: | | -> gentoo-dev-sources should give you what you are looking for; currently at 2.6.5 (although its been a while with no sign of 2.6.6 ) |
That's not strictly true. 2.6.6 did appear briefly a while back but was pulled due to ongoing issues with one of the patches. The ebuild is still in CVS, it's just been moved into the "attic" and thus not available on any of the rsync servers:
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/Attic/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.6.ebuild
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Wow, there are more replies to my 'off the cuff' comment than the original question
Thanks; Although there appear to be issues with it, that the original poster would perhaps not wish to get into, while transfering from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel. Maybe?
The choice is yours, as they say
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Admiral LSD
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Well I did say it had been pulled
Bug #51800 seems to be chronicling this issue and it appears that they're just going to skip 2.6.6 and are preparing for 2.6.7.
emerge gentoo-dev-source will still net you a 2.6 kernel, version 2.6.5-r1 to be exact, so unless there's something in 2.6.6 that you really need it's probably not worth worrying about.
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hugelmopf
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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hehe... i don't mind these "off the cuff" comments at all.
i was not looking for any particular 2.6.6 feature, so i'll just stay with whatever version i find in the portage tree |
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kevin_barsby
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm, I think there are some cisco patches in 2.6.6 I need to get VPN working...
Any guess as to when gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7 will be out?
thx
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| kevin_barsby wrote: | | Any guess as to when gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7 will be out? |
It is almost out now! . 2.6.7 is out as of today (ChangeLog ) and I guess we will have a gentoo-pached version quite soon ...
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