Re: [gentoo-dev] allowing configuration of builds?

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 04:38:15PM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:

> Well, I've done a simple addition to the current ebuild script that will
> set INTERACTIVE=y in the .ebuild file if it is passed w/ the -i switch.
> I put it in sys-apps/portage/files/ebuild-pete. I'll also attach a
> linux kernel ebuild script I put together to take advantage of this...

OK; continue making your changes to ebuild-pete.  I'll need to think more
about the best way to handle an interactive compile process.

The way I upgrade to a new kernel is to first merge linux-sources.  Then
I cd to /usr/src/linux and make menuconfig and compile and install the
kernel by hand.  So for linux-sources, an interactive merge isn't needed.

The "linux" ebuild contains the default pre-compiled kernel for Gentoo Linux.
This kernel should be pre-configured by us to support the widest variety of
hardware configurations possible.  You shouldn't need an interactive compile
mode for this kernel.

I think we avoid this whole interactive compile problem if people who compile
their own kernels simply use linux-sources instead.  Which reminds me, I need
to fix the install guide again :)  I forgot to mention that the linux-sources
need to be merged first.

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