On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:49:19 -0500 Marcus Wanner wrote: > I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6" > uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through > timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out. > > Thanks, and sorry for my noobishness. > > Marcus
It uses a tarball and patches: $$ ( cd /usr/portage/distfiles ; ls -l *2.6.31* ) ... 114701 2009-11-07 17:37 genpatches-2.6.31-6.base.tar.bz2 ... 24961 2009-11-07 17:37 genpatches-2.6.31-6.extras.tar.bz2 ... 139031 2009-11-16 14:50 genpatches-2.6.31-7.base.tar.bz2 ... 24961 2009-11-16 14:50 genpatches-2.6.31-7.extras.tar.bz2 ... 61494822 2009-09-12 20:14 linux-2.6.31.tar.bz2
