From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6426 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Oct 2003 15:39:48 -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 12274 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2003 15:39:48 -0000 From: "C. Brewer" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:39:54 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <4866.146.176.63.67.1066740482.squirrel@mail.codewordt.co.uk> <200310210858.29541.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310210858.29541.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_LNVl/mQb8bYuWxO"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310210839.55102.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x X-Archives-Salt: 085cffb2-4317-4802-a3a1-2d71a4bfc8ac X-Archives-Hash: 599ccb96dffd1c5f64d0cfaab2f763c3 --Boundary-02=_LNVl/mQb8bYuWxO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 21 October 2003 5:58, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:48, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > How must a package determine what kernel is system is using? > > it uses the /usr/src/linux symlink to determine running kernel ... if you > always have that set to your running kernel, packages should handle it > correctly (see nvidia-kernel for a good example) > -mike But why do we keep up with the obselete link? I won't go into the rants=20 against, as they are many and well documented, straight on back to the Head Penguin. But if packages were handling it correctly, they wouldn't be using= =20 the symlink to climb down to the includes. So we still have link climbing=20 even though we have the linux-headers package which is supposed to prevent= =20 just that... =20 =2D-=20 Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. --Boundary-02=_LNVl/mQb8bYuWxO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/lVNLGmszwkJY878RAqz/AJ9JnAFohGgUhCEBycelXxnHFoD/BQCgyZuW ceSjwabjGs+UAAVvIrRXGcA= =MqSo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_LNVl/mQb8bYuWxO--