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Title: vanilla-sources stabilization policy
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Author: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org>
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Content-Type: text/plain
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Posted: 2013-08-07
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Revision: 1
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News-Item-Format: 1.0
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Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
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The Gentoo Kernel Team will no longer be providing stable
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vanilla-sources kernels. All currently stabilized vanilla-sources
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versions will be dropped to ~arch. The Arch teams, via normal requests
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of the Kernel Team, will continue to stabilize gentoo-sources kernels
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upon request. This decision is based on the facts that upstream is now
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releasing approximately 1-2 vanilla-sources kernels a week. Arch teams,
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understandably, are unable to keep up with this rate of release. As
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most vanilla releases contain security fixes, the user who only runs
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stable vanilla-sources will consistently be behind and potentially at
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risk. For the latest "upstream kernel unpatched by Gentoo", we
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recommend users add 'sys-kernel/vanilla-sources' to their
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package.accept_keywords file. gentoo-sources will continue to be a
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tested and supported version for Gentoo users.
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Note: This news item only applies to gentoo-sources and vanilla-sources.
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Other kernels currently maintained in portage have their own policies
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and procedures in place today.
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