Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

2005-05-21 Thread Jose Angel Rodriguez Leyva
Thanks to all. I was unable to reply before. Tom Wesley wrote: > > I would create an overlay directory and copy to ebuilds there, that way > you can version bump your overlay as the main portage tree gets updated. I was replying that it is a good idea but it has a disadvantage when I realized I

[gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

2005-05-19 Thread Jose Angel Rodriguez Leyva
Hi, Sometimes I need to apply my own patches for a specific package but still using portage advantages, so I have to change package ebuild for that. So everytime I'm going to emerge any of those after an emerge sync, I have to change it again by hand. I'm wondering if there is some better way for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Jose Angel Rodriguez Leyva
Grant wrote: > Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of > emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in > correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far > enough "out there" to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like > these

[gentoo-user] Moxa and kernel 2.6.11

2005-05-17 Thread Jose Angel Rodriguez Leyva
Hi, I'm trying to make work a moxa smartio c168H/pci card with a kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r8. It comes with a different driver version than previous 2.4 kernel series, which I've been using for a long time without problems so I'm sure it's ok. I could compile and load mxser module, /dev nodes were c