XFS and Gentoo-Sources -- Is anyone else upset?

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IronTek · Post by **IronTek** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:58 pm

I installed Gentoo a while back and, at the time, XFS seemed just fine to use and Portage would easily and quickly patch the official gentoo sources to support XFS.

But now, they seem to be against it and don't offer it in the official gentoo sources. Why?

I know I can compile the xfs-sources from SGI if I want, but I'd much rather use a newer gentoo kernel.

...even have "xfs" under USE in make.conf doesn't work anymore (as it once did).

wtf?

Anyway, now that I'm done ranting, I was curious if there was anyway to manually path the gentoo sources to add support for XFS.

Thanks!

deepthought · Post by **deepthought** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:18 pm

No, but if you want all those nifty Gentoo patches AND xfs AND a lot more, you may also

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emerge wolk-sources

. Note that the ebuild is a bit outdated, but there is a more recent one in Gentoo Bugzilla. Just search for "wolk-sources".

You may also visit the WOLK homepage.

Regards,
Alexander[/code]

IronTek · Post by **IronTek** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 5:38 pm

Yes, this is what I was looking at in the event that Gentoo screwed me!

Still...the name sounds a bit too aggressive!

Does portage send down the server or workstation version of WOLK?

deepthought · Post by **deepthought** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:53 pm

AFAIK, the workstation sources. But anyway, you can tweak this during

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make menuconfig

Regards,
Alexander

IronTek · Post by **IronTek** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 9:31 pm

well, I tried it...it wouldn't compile.

Damnit!

deepthought · Post by **deepthought** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 9:17 am

So, what's wrong with them?

Regards,
Alexander

IronTek · Post by **IronTek** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 11:48 pm

...well, the kernel sort of finished compiling, but it didn't produce a kernel image, nor did it produce any errors...

nbensa · Post by **nbensa** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:13 am

ME!!!! I'm upset, very.

1.2 install guide recomended XFS, and now they just dropped. I'm locked with 2.4.20-gentoo-r1. I WON'T INSTALL XFS-SOURCES.

I guess I'll have to wait 'til 2.6 comes out

deepthought · Post by **deepthought** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 6:07 pm

IronTek wrote:...well, the kernel sort of finished compiling, but it didn't produce a kernel image, nor did it produce any errors...

What did you do?