Re: [gentoo-user] how long does it take to commit a patch to portage

[Stroller]

On Jan 2, 2004, at 3:40 pm, Tom Hosiawa wrote:

I'm looking to use the the latest patch for bootsplash that works
against the 2.4.22 kernel. I found a bug created for it on nov 11, 2003
but it's still not in the portage tree, so I'm wondering, does it 
really
take this long to commit a patch?

Also, I'm using kernel 2.4.23 because of that security bug in 2.4.22...
I'm not familiar with all the details you provide in your posting, but 
I find that:

  $ esearch vanilla-sources gentoo-sources
  ...
  *  sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
        Latest version available: 2.4.23
  ...
  *  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
        Latest version available: 2.4.22-r2
From what I've read the Gentoo-sources have quite a number of patches 
applied to them, and a great deal of testing is done upon them by a 
small team before they're committed to the tree. That is the cause of 
the delay, but it may also be the case that "that security bug in 
[vanilla] 2.4.22"  is fixed in Gentoo-sources. A search of the archives 
may (or may not) confirm this.

Stroller.

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