Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 04 October 2003 03:56 pm, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
> That would mean that portage wouldn't be able to track the files
> installed when doing a "make install" on those packages... As the
> kernels don't install anything, but in /lib/modules/`uname -r` where the
> kernel-modules go, portage doesn't have to track the files generated by
> a kernel-compile. But to be able to remove files which ordinary packages
> install portage has to be able to track the files installed by those
> packages. This would mean that portage would have to be extensively
> modified to be able to handle the files installed by a "make install"
> from a package merged to /usr/src.
> Just a thought...
In theory, Portage could track them if ebuild could be modified to use /usr/
src/pkg when it existed instead of /var/tmp/portage/*/work and the 
application was installed via 'ebuild pkg merge'. I'm not sure how possible 
that would be for implementation, though.
- -- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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