With the fast development of the 2.6 kernel, and living on the unstable edge, I am (and many many other people are) being bombarded with a new version every few days. That's a lot of bandwidth, and space for kernels I'm not going to use. What I'd like to see is wildcard matching in package.mask (and package.unmask) allowing me to mask all development-sources-2.6.?_rc?, etc, etc. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
what's wrong with masking sys-kernel/development-sources completely ?
ignore that, I misread your comment. I don't think that adding wildcards to these files is a good idea as it will likely break other things as well. A workaround is to exclude the things you don't want in RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM (see `man make.conf`) which supports wildcards.
I don't follow what you want. What's wrong with the masks as they are? Read the docs and use a depend atom... I'm also not fond of the idea of a wildcard and probably won't ever support such a thing as it _WILL_ become a nightmare for devs to figure out why userL exploded in an email flame war.
i'd agree with nick on this one ... masking is just fine as it is ... if you dont want to follow such a constantly updated kernel then dont use it and/or just inject the new ones as you go personally i build a new 2.6 almost everyday :P
Fair enough, you're right. I did find a 'nice enough' answer, mask all development-sources, and unmask the ones I want. Cheers
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