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Bowyakka
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Oct 2002
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Location: London
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 Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:21 pm Post subject: quick thought -- kernel ebuilds |
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Why dont the kerenl ebuilds look for an exisitng kernel tar-ball and then download the patches from kerenl.org rather than the new tarball, say if a use flag kernel_patch was enabled or sumthing
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nikai
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Joined: 02 Oct 2002
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Location: Kitzbühel, Austria
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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There's already a project working on this:
| Code: | $ emerge -s deltup
Searching...
[ Results for search key : deltup ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* sys-apps/deltup
Latest version available: 0.4.0
Latest version installed: 0.4.0
Size of downloaded files: 15 kB
Homepage: http://deltup.sourceforge.net
Description: Patch system for Gentoo sources. Retains MD5 codes |
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