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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:58:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310210858.29541.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4866.146.176.63.67.1066740482.squirrel@mail.codewordt.co.uk>

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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

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-21 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21 12:48 [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-10-21 12:58 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2003-10-21 15:39   ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 16:25     ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-10-21 17:44       ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 20:15         ` Grant Goodyear
2003-10-22  3:11           ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 20:53         ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-10-21 22:25         ` Spider
2003-10-22  3:44           ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22  8:15             ` Chris Smith
2003-10-22  8:17             ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-22 18:27               ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 18:46                 ` Brian Jackson
2003-10-22 19:23                 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-22 19:47                   ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 20:06                     ` Spider
2003-10-22 10:40             ` Spider
2003-10-22 18:07               ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 19:01                 ` Spider
2003-10-22 11:20           ` Patrick Lauer

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