On Wednesday 22 October 2003 20:27, C. Brewer wrote:
>
> Well I did not say my way was a definative answer, merely a suggestion. I
> believe you meant to say the kernel sources ebuild provides that link,
> which Patrick suggested that could be easily put out of date, and Spider
> suggested he might not keep the sources for. But how is my asking the link
> get dropped "awkward and notworking"? You just pointed out the link doesn't
> change if it preexists, so the benefit is that your unattended install just
> dumped your modules into the wrong place, when you have it pointing at the
> wrong kernel. So if you need to keep changing this link back and forth to
> suit where the modules go, doesn't this become user preference rather than
> system preference?
>

You need to have the sources anyway to build a module. What is esp. 
problematic is first installs. One should install a kernel before the final 
is finished (the install man). Normally one also wants to install the modules 
for this kernel. Once people have at least one running kernel, they can at 
least fallback to it.

> There is no easy answer to this problem, but it seems nobody want to tackle
> it either( along with multiple versions of the same modules packages.)

This is something that is high on my wishlist (it should even be doable).

Paul

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