From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9119 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Oct 2003 19:24:08 -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 29082 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2003 19:24:08 -0000 X-Cert-subject: /C=US/ST=Oklahoma/L=Oklahoma/O=SNU/CN=mail.gentoo.org/Email=postmaster@gentoo.org From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:23:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <4866.146.176.63.67.1066740482.squirrel@mail.codewordt.co.uk> <200310221017.43833.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200310221127.08345.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> In-Reply-To: <200310221127.08345.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_Rltl/JzUAx4bOYo"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310222124.01388.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x X-Archives-Salt: 88510581-4ab7-4f1e-8a18-684dfb9b43ad X-Archives-Hash: 6dcb67887692ca09c4a4e43f5dd18287 --Boundary-02=_Rltl/JzUAx4bOYo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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 which Patrick suggested that could be easily put out of date, and Spider 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 ju= st > 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.=20 problematic is first installs. One should install a kernel before the final= =20 is finished (the install man). Normally one also wants to install the modul= es=20 for this kernel. Once people have at least one running kernel, they can at= =20 least fallback to it. > There is no easy answer to this problem, but it seems nobody want to tack= le > 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 =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_Rltl/JzUAx4bOYo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ltlRbKx5DBjWFdsRAqtzAJ9WbESt9ymfFYm5if8f4dwDow/NggCfbCvh 8G1sZTkrlrjZiJd6oeJOSEg= =/Yiq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Rltl/JzUAx4bOYo--