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Bug 15928 - when kernel sources updated, FULL sources fetched. Should fetch patch if possible.
Summary: when kernel sources updated, FULL sources fetched. Should fetch patch if poss...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11470
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2003-02-18 10:50 UTC by dan
Modified: 2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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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. 

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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 ***