Bug 15928

Summary:	when kernel sources updated, FULL sources fetched. Should fetch patch if possible.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	dan <overvolting>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description dan 2003-02-18 10:50:18 UTC

When  kernel sources are updated, the whole kernel is fetched over again. 
That's not good practice. 
each kernel ebuild should be updated so that if it finds the last kernel source in distfiles, it only 
grabs the patch. 
 
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eg. I had development sources 2.5.61 
A new ebuild came out and was going to update to development-sources-2.5.62. 
portage fetched the entire kernel over again (linux-2.5.62.tar.bz2) 
When it could have just fetched the patch because linux-2.5.61.tar.bz2 was still in my distfiles. 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-02-18 11:10:30 UTC


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