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) :-) Thanks 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! > -- All the best, Robert