On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 21:55:23 +0200 Fabio Erculiani <lx...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I believe that end users would benefit more from kernel binary ebuilds > (ebuilds building an actual kernel with an official config), rather > than all this. > There's been a start on this, but we're looking at you now; feel free to communicate with Zero_Chaos about this to clarify why and how you do certain matters, make sure (just ping me on IRC after a conversation with him or so) I can follow along so I can more easily bring this into the Portage tree; as at least someone on the kernel herd needs to understand what is going on with all of that There is a bug filed for this with some work from him. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472906 Separate from this whole thread; we definitely have some thoughts about this in mind, and I'll give you one cool thought: Having the kernel build the sources can allow the kernel to automatically rebuild out of kernel modules; eg. `emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel` and it will rebuild nvidia-drivers, virtualbox, ... Of course, for this to work we would need to propagate sub slot rebuilds through virtuals. We thinked through some possible problems and solutions that appear; but I would like to keep them out of this ML thread; as to not mix a thought out idea with one that does some early circles in our minds. On a side note; I'm currently testing genpatches using an ebuild I hacked together myself, allows me to test the way eclass does the patches as well as include some neat local QA checks and testing magic. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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