From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JPhX6-0005pH-O0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:06:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4AFAE05C0; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from creativecommunications.com (creativecommunications.com [65.17.124.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0177E05C0 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9EC68C008 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:05:58 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at creativecommunications.com Received: from creativecommunications.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (creativecommunications.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dn4bKPIsnhFK for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:05:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.0.63] (68-188-61-127.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com [68.188.61.127]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2EE68C06D for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:05:51 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <47B475FA.3040404@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:10:18 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080101) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] fooling uname References: <47B3A60A.9000101@lavabit.com> <47B3AF26.8070500@gentoo.org> <47B425FF.90605@lavabit.com> In-Reply-To: <47B425FF.90605@lavabit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e001e686-edc9-4705-b738-142195d8640d X-Archives-Hash: 67b99d4a22a93f1e3cea3788113af9aa lurker wrote: > On 14/02/08 04:01, Andrew Gaffney wrote: >> lurker wrote: >>> Greetings list, >>> >>> Currently catalyst (2.0.5, 2.0.6pre4) doesn't seem to change what uname >>> outputs. uname -r, for example, prints the version of the kernel running >>> catalyst, not the kernel that's in the stage. Of course, that's how it >>> is, but isn't it possible to hack that somehow? It's a bit tedioius to >>> patch everything that depends on uname (e.g. the raling-rt61 ebuild). >>> Can the "uname string" be set by some envirnoment variable in an env >>> script specified in the spec file? >> Any ebuild that depends upon the output of uname is broken and should be >> fixed. > > Sorry, I meant the compile scripts, e.g. the Makefile of ralink-rt61. Whether it's the ebuild or the package's build system, it's still broken. Doing crap like this makes it impossible to build a package for another machine that's not running the same kernel. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list