From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7243 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jul 2003 00:29:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 32342 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2003 00:29:37 -0000 From: George Shapovalov Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:29:56 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030724164320.516c13e8.florian.huber@mnet-online.de> In-Reply-To: <20030724164320.516c13e8.florian.huber@mnet-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307241729.57374.george@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 tagged_above=-100000.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dummy-sources X-Archives-Salt: 9eea003b-3c3b-460b-ba6c-7b4fb67f0b04 X-Archives-Hash: 371887c7e780914775b186a5f05892cc Ok, there have been a few replies and well, injecting some official (i.e. in-portage) kernel sources may not be the ideal solution. However looks like nobody mentioned the following, so I'll take a shot: Let go back to the purpose. User wants to patch together his own kernel, configure and install it, all in all is not a 5 min undertaking. What about then just creating some dummy-sources under PORTAGE_OVERLAY? (make sure that ebuild has PROVIDE=virtual/linux-sources, or just inherit kernel instead) This will only take a minute and will only add to the process that is already manual and best of all - you need to do it only once. If you want to be really fancy (but depending on where you start and what patches you want to apply it may even save some time in the future) you can even create your own ebuild ;) instead of just dummy one. In short, I think in this case (and for this particular purpose) providing central dummy-sources does not significantly help already simple ask. However I agree that generic dummy-package's may be usefull in certain situations, but then lets may be wait until another situation that warrants it comes aroung? George On Thursday 24 July 2003 07:43, Florian Huber wrote: > Hello, > since I am mostly using custom patched kernels I do not want to > install any gentoo-provided kernel package. > > It would be a great idea if there was a ebuild like "dummy-sources" > which only provides virtual/linux-sources. > > Bye > Florian Huber > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list