On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:06:58 +0200 Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi! > > On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > > There's a very simple yet custom solution I'm using. Shortly saying: > > checkout the kernel git to /usr/src/linux and chown to your user. As > > far as it goes, it's superior to having kernel sources installed by > > ebuilds. > > > > I just have to remember to do 'git fetch' from time to time and 'git > > merge' whenever a new version is tagged. > > It is also beyond the package manager's control. That means users > who want to just configure their kernel (and run point releases > otherwise) have to actively check for new tags/versions. True. I think that's the direction I should look into improving. > Aside from that the git tree is not exactly lightweight: my > current 2.6 checkout weighs in at 1.4G whereas the unpacked tar > is 512M. Well, that's the other problem. On the other hand, you usually have to have that 1G free anyway unless you intend to manually unmerge the previous *-sources before installing the new one. And the time needed to do that... git is so much faster. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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