From: Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How do I keep multiple versions of modules?
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 23:16:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204022316.25504.danarmak@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1017775998.13423.17.camel@g2.ces.clemson.edu>
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 22:33, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> > Kernel modules should be special and if you rebuild a module, it should
> > remove the module only for the currently running kernel hierarchy and
> > not from a different kernel version.
>
> True. I suspect that nobody had thought of it yet.
I did, but put it off for post-1.0 :-)
>
> > Is this even possible with the poratge system?
>
> Not right now, although such functionality shouldn't be hard to add.
One solution: where the modules have a separate ebuild (like nvidia-kernel,
not like pcmcia-cs - but they can be split), set SLOT=KERNEL_VERSION and
(once we have full slot functionality in Portage) remerging won't unmerge a
different kernel version's modules.
>
> > I wasn't sure where I should post this, so I crossposted to user and
> > dev.
>
> Please post your comment as a "bug" on bugs.gentoo.org. You have
> a good point, and it would be a shame for it to get lost.
>
> Thanks,
> g2boojum
>
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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-02 18:35 [gentoo-dev] How do I keep multiple versions of modules? Avi Schwartz
2002-04-02 19:33 ` Grant Goodyear
2002-04-02 20:16 ` Dan Armak [this message]
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