Due to the increased number of kernel (extraversion) releases [1], I thought it may be appropriate to make use of the official patches against a sublevel release. I've modified the current development-sources ebuild to make use of these patches. So for every 2.6.x.y release it will download only the patch, and apply this against the last 2.6.x release. This should reduce downloads between these small version from 30MB+ to less than 5k [1] - http://kerneltrap.org/node/4800 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 53650 [details, diff] Patch against development-sources-2.6.11.3
That's exactly what I had on my mind, too :) Greetings Sebastian
THANK YOU. i would LOVE to see this in portage (for every version bump. its kinda silly to have 4 full distfiles for very minor kernel bumps)
This is in the portage tree for all 2.6.11.X ebuilds, thank you for your report. Please give the changes two hours to propagate before syncing.
Tony, this would be a lot better addressed in the detect_version stuff in kernel-2. i will look into this if you dont beat me to it. If you do check it out, please send me your patches before comitting so that I can review. cheers.
This will be fixed on a grander scale. Just re-opening for audit.
actually reopening this time :)
ok, fixed in the eclass and in the vanilla-sources-2.6.11.6 ebuild. any testing appreciated.
