i was just updating pbot's factoid about the available kernels - im not sure why any of these repo was ever needed really; but now there are only two packages in [i686/kernels] - both have not been updated since january - there is nothing for the other arches; and [cross] is empty for all arches
* i686/kernels/linux-libre-aarch64 5.4.8 * i686/kernels/linux-libre-x86_64 5.4.8 i also noticed 'linux-libre-64' in [i686/libre] - that is more recent than the other new (undocumented) ones - is there any difference between 'linux-libre-64' and 'linux-libre-x86_64'? - and why are these only in the i686 repos? * i686/libre/linux-libre-64 5.6.12 what is the use case for those foreign kernels? - are they experimental, or something we should document? - maybe its a good time to nail down the semantics of what goes in [kernels] and [cross]; or maybe decide if those specialty repos are any longer needed the wiki is not very helpful for understanding their original intentions [libre] "contains non-standard kernels such as "long term support with stealth TCP sockets patches" kernels oriented towards servers, or kernels compiled with AppArmor, TOMOYO, SMACK and SELinux support" [cross] "contains mostly-unsupported packages that contain tool-chains for cross-compiling for a different architecture" IMHO we do not want any permanently "unsupported packages" - we have the personal name-spaces for experimentation; and there is another repo which is named: [unmaintained] - though again i think there should not be any unsupported nor unmaintained packages in the system - a "PUR" PKGBUILD repos would serve that purpose better we have discussed adding a something like a [build-tools] repo, for to hide 'pip' and other sharp kitchen utensils - maybe we could rename and re-purpose [cross] for that? _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
