13980 – Full tarbz2ball of development-sources should not be downloaded each time a new kernel is released.

Bug 13980 - Full tarbz2ball of development-sources should not be downloaded each time a new kernel is released.

Summary: Full tarbz2ball of development-sources should not be downloaded each time a n...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11470

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2003-01-15 11:31 UTC by Aniruddha Shankar
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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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 ***