Am Dienstag, 21. April 2020, 17:47:08 CEST schrieb Ashley Dixon: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 06:33:05PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 21/04/2020 18:05, Gerion Entrup wrote: > > > gentoo-kernel: ??? > > > > Unfortunately he didn't say anything about gentoo-kernel-bin. So... no idea. > > gentoo-kernel-bin is, as its description on packages.gentoo.org would > suggest: a > pre-built kernel---hence the 'bin' suffix. This is not uncommon in Gentoo, > c.f. > www-client/firefox-bin or dev-java/gradle-bin. In fact, there are > currently > eighty-eight such packages in Portage. > > They're just provided for convenience, when people don't want to spend > ages > compiling some massive software on their fifteen-year-old C.P.U. In the case > of > Firefox, legal issues with enabling official branding can also sometimes > concern > the binary distribution.
Thank you for the explanations. I also dug around a bit in the kernel-build.eclass and the ebuilds. My summary then is: gentoo-sources: vanilla source tree + gentoo-patches (no automatic compiling etc.). gentoo-kernel: take gentoo-sources as source, the kernel .config file from Arch Linux and then compile and install it automatically with portage. gentoo-kernel-bin: The precompiled version of gentoo-kernel (except of the initramfs that has to be generated on a per PC basis). Gerion
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