From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30433 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 17:29:55 -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 20735 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 17:29:55 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: Patrick =?utf-8?q?B=C3=B6rjesson?= , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:29:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041436.43568.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20031004175629.09f342a0.psycho@rift.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20031004175629.09f342a0.psycho@rift.ath.cx> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310041729.52354.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: d9687344-22e8-4604-af16-e531d9368194 X-Archives-Hash: 547a5027150754567ec09d17e71a48c7 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 October 2003 03:56 pm, Patrick B=C3=B6rjesson 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=20 application was installed via 'ebuild pkg merge'. I'm not sure how possible= =20 that would be for implementation, though. =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fwOKZl/BHdU+lYMRAqTcAJ0e56vTbTmiQPT216LyFjnFCgG2BACfUHty HOTJtpID3o1hsZek1664yvs=3D =3DbY6v =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list