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 06:27 pm, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
> But then the question is: Why? We already have the source unpacked in
> /var/tmp/portage/*/work so why "move" it to /usr/src?
One could say the same for /var/tmp/portage/*/image... Why put it there and 
move it to /?

> There are already
> ways for people to do the configure- and make-steps them selves if they
> wish (through the ebuild-command as you yourself said). As I see it
> there would be no advantage reimplementing it the proposed way...
Nothing in /var/tmp should be expected to continue to exist any longer than 
the process which created them is running. They usually do, but they should 
not be expected to.

> As for the kernels to be auto-configured, why not do it the same way as
> some other packages do it: have an extra section in the ebuild that
> configures the kernel for you through genkernel... Several other
> packages already have this section (think it's called config) including
> postresql. This could be advertised in the same way as in the
> postresql-ebuild at the end of the emerge-command, and thus everybody
> has a choice in how they would like to configure and compile the kernel.
As it is right now, there is no choice. Implementation of the idea would add 
an option, and emerging linux-src would do the same as emerging 
vanilla-sources does right now.
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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