From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24920 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Oct 2003 02:40:19 -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 29300 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 02:40:18 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: Patrick =?utf-8?q?B=C3=B6rjesson?= , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 02:39:55 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041729.52354.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <20031004202723.65d7ee16.psycho@rift.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20031004202723.65d7ee16.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: <200310050240.13006.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 53c2b3d2-ed05-4ca6-98f3-53b94793d81a X-Archives-Hash: 74bf8e118434a35b663910ed96390862 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 October 2003 06:27 pm, Patrick B=C3=B6rjesson 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= =20 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= =20 the process which created them is running. They usually do, but they should= =20 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 ad= d=20 an option, and emerging linux-src would do the same as emerging=20 vanilla-sources does right now. =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/f4SIZl/BHdU+lYMRArUWAKCXlnTslyPKdDHjLOU4HO5vT1FQWgCfcVc+ ak6Hmex5PfH3sY2HWrW0UoI=3D =3D32zv =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list