From: Sean Mitchell <SMitchell@phoenix-interactive.com>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Dependency Question
Date: Wed Jun 20 09:12:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DCB85BD45DED211B12D009027279E4F4765E7@murcury> (raw)
-----Original Message-----
From: AGottinger@t-online.de [mailto:AGottinger@t-online.de]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:33 AM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Dependency Question
>> If I install linux-sources-xxxxx and then build myself a kernel, it seems
>> that any package that requires linux-kernel-xxxxx goes ahead and installs
>> it.
>>
>> It seems to me that the sources should (once compiled) give me eveything
the
>> kernel package gives me. Is this the case or am I missing something? I
>> suppose I could change the deps in the ebuild but it would be better if
>> there was some sort of global override. I RTFM but didn't see anything
that
>> explained this to me.
> All packages should depend on virtual/kernel which is provided by linux
> and linux-sources.
> But only linux and linux-extras provide virtual/alsa which is required
> by some packages.
> So you must install linux-extras after you builded and installed your
> kernel.
Ah-ha! This was indeed the root of the trouble. I installed linux-extras and
now the dependencies on linux-kernel have gone away. Thanks!
BTW, you guys have done/are doing a great job with Gentoo Linux. This is
exactly the sort of distribution I've been looking for after my travels in
BSDland.
Sean
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2001-06-20 9:12 Sean Mitchell [this message]
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2001-06-20 6:52 [gentoo-dev] Kernel Dependency Question Sean Mitchell
2001-06-20 8:13 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-06-20 8:51 ` Achim Gottinger
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