Re: userspace breakage

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:00:39AM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> On 1/3/06, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:28:53PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> >  > > I'm glad you agree.  I've decided to try something different once 2.6.16
> >  > > is out.  Every day, I'm going to push the -git snapshot of the day into
> >  > > a testing branch for Fedora users. (Normally, only rawhide[1] users
> >  > > get to test kernel-de-jour, and this always has the latest userspace, so
> >  > > we don't notice problems until a kernel point release and the stable
> >  > > distro gets an update).
> >  >
> >  > Ah, nice idea, I'll try to set up the same thing for Gentoo's kernels.
> >  > Hopefully the expanded coverage will help...
> 
> Greg,
> did you manage for doing the same for Gentoo?

As there wasn't a more recent kernel than 2.6.15 until a few hours ago,
no I haven't done this yet :)

> If so, what's the approach? Is Gentoo now shipping pre-compiled -git
> vanilla kernels as well?

Gentoo doesn't ship anything "pre-compiled" :)

Well, ok, I guess it does with the -bin packages...

I was just going to build a -git kernel ebuild and let users update
that.  But maybe I should start building pre-built kernels, I'll take it
to the gentoo-dev list, as this isn't a linux-kernel specific thing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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