Minimal & hopefully safe, but I KNOW you'll want to change stuff to use variables etc. that I haven't found out about. My testing on this is ongoing (!), but I wanted to set the ball rolling . . . ebuild patch followed by digest: sparky linux-sources # diff linux-sources-2.4.17-r99.ebuild linux-sources-2.4.17-r3.ebuild 30,31c30,31 < DESCRIPTION="Linux kernel version ${KV} - 2.4.0 source plus patches" < SRC_URI="http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.1.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.2.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.3.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.4.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.5.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.6.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.7.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.8.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.9.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.10.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.11.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.12.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.13.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.14.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.15.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.16.bz2 http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.17.bz2 http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/linux-gentoo-2.4.17-r3.patch.bz2" --- > DESCRIPTION="Linux kernel version ${KV} - full sources" > SRC_URI="http://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-${OKV}.tar.bz2 http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/linux-gentoo-${KV}.patch.bz2" 51,52c51 < unpack linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 < linux/scripts/patch-kernel linux /usr/portage/distfiles --- > unpack linux-${OKV}.tar.bz2 sparky linux-sources # cat files/digest-linux-sources-2.4.17-r99 MD5 18278baa4c54387b1c29f0edba55ab14 linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 19788626 MD5 c4939f92452ab1c2f3ae064802496edc patch-2.4.1.bz2 538678 MD5 46b6589242917f64693be1a970d29c61 patch-2.4.10.bz2 2098208 MD5 a3fe972e3208cf48b457178df5c7b584 patch-2.4.11.bz2 784238 MD5 43c5522a6db8e9e004b13e82efed2b5b patch-2.4.12.bz2 36846 MD5 069415a346b7288fac793b8effe677b2 patch-2.4.13.bz2 615709 MD5 3bdfcd5e75ed2412255dee8254f90472 patch-2.4.14.bz2 573667 MD5 cb291d3b4daf0f05e6df71679e8fcccf patch-2.4.15.bz2 1267539 MD5 46bebbadb58bc9e9c0ddfad953c1f01e patch-2.4.16.bz2 5782 MD5 4f84bb410cba4bf9c4199107a9e5ecb7 patch-2.4.17.bz2 397066 MD5 123ec90e74f036b63ccc68d934650d32 patch-2.4.2.bz2 1188820 MD5 b4d9eb63471c165ecb71ffa23d55d58b patch-2.4.3.bz2 1078123 MD5 0434231fb1cea1a7f58f185cc8584d6c patch-2.4.4.bz2 1808799 MD5 d3b253e80e1a6cbd5cceebb042d15d11 patch-2.4.5.bz2 883596 MD5 066b898615e650adbf2c1fc1802b3a26 patch-2.4.6.bz2 1390867 MD5 0a01b76b95d94706a50afb5033f7a9ab patch-2.4.7.bz2 982933 MD5 4e94d6e3e79f8f0e8e45fd92625e08ef patch-2.4.8.bz2 785040 MD5 8d11c39ef979f53e0c09d63f417e1d38 patch-2.4.9.bz2 607194 MD5 64d19389db4c2d92ad4923697ae03b9b linux-gentoo-2.4.17-r3.patch.bz2 1098120
This actually makes the download much bigger than if you simply download 2.4.17 and our gentoo patch.
. . . until 2.4.18 comes out . . . and OK I suppose people who purge their distfiles might not appreciate it. Is it really such a bad idea?
To download 2.4.0 and every patch since then? Yes, that's a bad idea. Please don't reopen this bug
