On Tuesday 31 March 2015 16:45:08 Bob Wya wrote: > Neil, > > (a) Should I download the vanilla 3.18.1 kernel sources and apply all the > gentoo-sources tar-ball patches in numerical order?? > > (b) I tried downloading the vanilla 3.18.8 kernel. But of course the > earlier gentoo-sources 3.18.1 - 3.18.6 patches don't apply cleanly... Will > I get to the same place if I ignore these?? Or should I go with option > (a)
You didn't read the first thing Neil wrote, did you? Or did you just decide to ignore it? > On 31 March 2015 at 12:00, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:51:11 +0100, Bob Wya wrote: > > > > lease don't top-post, it is frowned upon on this list, and for good > > reason. > > > > > Simply changing the ebuild version to 3.18.1 doesn't work. The > > > kernel-2 > > > eclass simply won't allow one to build a gentoo-sources 3.18.x kernel > > > lower than / before 3.18.9 now. (Try it if you don't believe me...) > > > That was the first thing I tried. :-) > > > > I wasn't suggesting renaming the ebuild but downloading the older > > version. However, on checking the content I see it still uses the > > kernel-2 eclass. You can deal with this by downloading the older version > > of the eclass from CVS and putting it in an overlay, but it's probably > > easier to just apply the patches manually in this case. > > > > gentoo-sources uses both the base and extra patchsets from genpatches. > > > > > > -- > > Neil Bothwick > > > > Fragile. Do not turn umop ap1sdn! -- Rgds Peter.
