On Wednesday 24 December 2003 16:12, Mike Kirkland wrote: > I see what you're getting at, and that's fine for right now. I assume > that at some point in the future development-sources and > gentoo-dev-sources will become 2.7, and vanilla-sources and > gentoo-sources will move to 2.6. It'd be nice when this happens to have > something for people who don't want to upgrade, and only want to build > security/bug fixes that will surely be coming out for 2.4 for years to > come. If we're going to have vanilla-2.4, and/or gentoo-sources-2.4 at > that point anyways... May aswell work out ahead of time how it will be > laid out.
For this there is a file called /etc/portage/package.mask in which you can define your own masks. Add ">=vanilla-sources-2.6.0" to this file and you'll never get offered the upgrade until you remove the line. > It's not really that critical though. For the most part people who want > 2.6 now now now are perfectly capable of running off and rolling their > own, and probably are already running something like mm or love-sources > anyways. They are available as dev-sources so no problem at all. But for gentoo-sources to become 2.6 besides more proven stability we especially need better userland support. Things like udev are just not useable right now. glibc has similar issues etc. and many packages too. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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