after a few minutes of fiddling with linux-2.6.0 + patch-2.6.1, checking to see if the resulting linux-2.6.1 matched the md5sums, i realized that
emerge -f =gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1_rc3 would do exactly what i wanted. i guess the _rc3 vs -rc3 prevented emerge world from picking it up (is that a feature or a bug?). anyway, my example isn't so good, but the general idea persists. and thanks to brad_mssw for saving me the work of figuring it out myself (ie _rc3). seth On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 23:42, seth lytle wrote: > as a modem user, i'm interested in being able to upgrade packages by > using patches, as opposed to downloading the entire new version (which > is what emerge -U does). as an example, i already have kernel 2.6.0, so > i could upgrade to 2.6.1 by only downloading the patch from kernel.org > > patch-2.6.1.bz2 08-Jan-2004 23:31 760K > > vs > > emerge -U > http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/distfiles/linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2 > Length: 33,240,033 (33,044,863 to go) [application/x-tar] > > a 95% savings. seems like it would be better for me, gentoo, gentoo > mirrors, and the world :) i can bypass emerge and just install the new > kernel myself without too much trouble, but an automated provision would > be much better. many packages might benefit in this way. is there a > package or tool that helps do this? -- seth lytle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
