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Ok, there have been a few replies and well, injecting some official (i.e. |
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in-portage) kernel sources may not be the ideal solution. However looks like |
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nobody mentioned the following, so I'll take a shot: |
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Let go back to the purpose. User wants to patch together his own kernel, |
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configure and install it, all in all is not a 5 min undertaking. What about |
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then just creating some dummy-sources under PORTAGE_OVERLAY? (make sure that |
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ebuild has PROVIDE=virtual/linux-sources, or just inherit kernel instead) |
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This will only take a minute and will only add to the process that is already |
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manual and best of all - you need to do it only once. |
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If you want to be really fancy (but depending on where you start and what |
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patches you want to apply it may even save some time in the future) you can |
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even create your own ebuild ;) instead of just dummy one. |
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In short, I think in this case (and for this particular purpose) providing |
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central dummy-sources does not significantly help already simple ask. However |
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I agree that generic dummy-package's may be usefull in certain situations, |
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but then lets may be wait until another situation that warrants it comes |
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aroung? |
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George |
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On Thursday 24 July 2003 07:43, Florian Huber wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> since I am mostly using custom patched kernels I do not want to |
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> install any gentoo-provided kernel package. |
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> It would be a great idea if there was a ebuild like "dummy-sources" |
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> which only provides virtual/linux-sources. |
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> Bye |
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> Florian Huber |
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