Bug 13980

Summary:	Full tarbz2ball of development-sources should not be downloaded each time a new kernel is released.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aniruddha Shankar <k>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	1.2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Aniruddha Shankar 2003-01-15 11:31:11 UTC

sys-kernel/development-sources has a new version out every few days. Rather than download the entire kernel, it would save massive amounts of time for each user and massive amounts of bandwidth if the patches were used to update the kernel.
 For example, if you have the source for 2.5.57 in /usr/portage/distfiles and 2.5.58 comes out,
1. patch-2.5.58.gz  be downloaded (188k) rather than linux-2.5.58.tar.bz2   (30.1 MB), let 
2.  linux-2.5.57 should be unpacked in  $PORTAGE_TMPDIR, 
3. $PORTAGE_TMPDIR/portage/linux-2.5.57 shoudl be patched with patch-2.5.58
4. linux-2.5.58 should be installed

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-15 11:35:43 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11470 ***