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

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

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On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:47 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > I although don't suggest that -src
> > suffix, but an option to the emerge, which tells it to install this
> > software to package's SLOT="$P-src", from which I then could be looking
> > in $PORT_SRC_DIR/$P-src.
> Agreed here. An option to emerge is much more intuitive.
However, it prevents packages from DEPENDing on it. For example, if the 
kernels were to ever use the genkernel thing, nvidia-kernel might DEPEND on 
nvidia-kernel if it actually needed the source for it. I also don't think it 
should automaticly provide the package it is the source for until the user 
uses ebuild to install/merge it into the system.
>
> > Oh and the kernel packages that would compile the kernel should install
> > the kernel headers of the compiled kernel to
> > /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/include/
> > so that any package that needs the real kernel headers can find them.
> Er, I'm pretty sure that the packages that need the source in
> /usr/src/linux need more than just the headers - but don't quote me on
> that!
I can't think of any valid reason they would need to do so, but I've never 
done much of anything with the kernel.
- -- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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