On 11/10/05, Thomas Pegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > > >> Does someone have an idea on what the source based distros are using? > > > > > > Gentoo appears to be using their own, I think - > > http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?linux-headers-2.6.11-r2. I can't > > see any links to the actual tarball though that would enable a full > > comparison, just the patches they apply against it. > > > They use the kernel sources and apply about 7+ patches against it, then > install them. >
I was going to post the same thing. I was just jumping thru their e-builds figuring out what they were upto. One thing they additionally do is fix the headers before installation (they call a headers___fix function/executable). Need to see how those headers are fixed. Maybe that's the best way to go? -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
