8162 – Should be a method to choose which patches to apply to a kernel

Bug 8162 - Should be a method to choose which patches to apply to a kernel

Summary: Should be a method to choose which patches to apply to a kernel

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Brandon Low (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-09-20 17:04 UTC by Preston A. Elder (RETIRED)
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Preston A. Elder (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-20 17:04:48 UTC

Right now, there is something that allows you to choose not to have the
cryptoapi patch applied, 'use crypt', however there is nothing to choose not to
have the other major patches applied, eg. evms.

We need some way to choose not to have a patch applied.  One suggestion would be
somthing like a KERNEL_EXCLUDE environment veriable, so then you could do:
KERNEL_EXCLUDE="evms" emerge gentoo-sources

This would make the ebuild exclude the evms patches (ie. not apply them).  Right
now, this has to be done manually by editing the ebuild (and adding in an rm 21*
22* 23* command before the patches are applied).

Comment 1 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-21 18:52:05 UTC

working on it... should be in lolo-sources-2.4.19.10_pre3 along with my
documentation updates ... and stuff ...

Comment 2 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-22 02:27:28 UTC

ok well no doc updates, but_pre3 is out and has this option... read the ebuild
comments and stuff...