Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2013, 19:13:18 schrieb Tom Wijsman: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:37:16 +0100 (CET) > > "Peter Gantner \(nephros\)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually I have always wondered why the kernels are SLOTted by > > complete version and not just series. I imagine many peoples lives > > would be easier if they could just unmask xxx-sources:3.4 and > > therefore always get the current "upstream-stable" version of their > > preferred kernel. > > > > But then there are probably good reasons for the way it is done. (Or, > > maybe, it is a holdover from 2.6.xx days where the two dots made more > > sense for SLOTs?) > > As an easy way to keep a single kernel version from being unmerged by > a kernel upgrade in Portage, I think. > > emerge gentoo-sources:3.7.9
But why would you want that? I think normally its more likely that a user wants to stick to the seriens (e.g. :3.7) so that he/she receives security updates as well as minor fixes. If you really wanted to stick to a particular version you can always mask any version greater than that similar to what you wrote yourself below: echo ">=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.7" >> /etc/portage/package.mask [snip] > If you were to make the SLOTS branch based you would get rid of the > mask line in above example; right > but its side effect is that it would also > get rid of the easy SLOT syntax which will require you to specify > the full ATOM specification whenever you want to keep a version > around, or unmerge another. This is not worth the change... > > Of course, this is just one approach to it; feel free to share a > different work flow if your approach differs from the above one. > First, if you remove any gentoo-sources package it will never remove the kernel or modules that have been built from it. So you will always keep the kernel that may be important if a newer one has problems for example. Regardless of removing the sources or not. Then, I think using SLOTs for single versions is not really what SLOTs are made for. From what I understand, for a *single* *particular* version of any package you have ATOMs in portage and for a branch or a group of versions that belong together somehow you have SLOTs. I personally would like to see this scheme for kernels too. Be it gentoo- sources or hardened-sources. -Marc -- 0x35A64134 - 8AAC 5F46 83B4 DB70 8317 3723 296C 6CCA 35A6 4134
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