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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Dependency Question
Date: Wed Jun 20 08:13:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010620081242.A18359@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1DCB85BD45DED211B12D009027279E4F4765E2@murcury>; from SMitchell@phoenix-interactive.com on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:48:51AM -0400

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:48:51AM -0400, Sean Mitchell wrote:
> 
> Wondering how the dependencies work for this situation....
> 
> 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.

Your assumptions are correct; this shouldn't happen.  Please report the specific
versions of the kernel packages you installed so that we can look into it.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			



  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-20 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-20  6:52 [gentoo-dev] Kernel Dependency Question Sean Mitchell
2001-06-20  8:13 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-06-20  8:51 ` Achim Gottinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-20  9:12 Sean Mitchell

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