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From: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
To: gentoo-genkernel@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-genkernel] Re: genkernel required apps versioning
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:29:12
Message-Id: 50283C2F.6000400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-genkernel] Re: genkernel required apps versioning by Peter Hjalmarsson
1 On 08/13/2012 12:17 AM, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:
2 > Yeah, I saw that. Even if re-sourceing genkernel.conf does not bring
3 > other problem it just does not look very pretty.
4 >
5 > I have (untested) code in the branch software-vars that aims to take
6 > care of this in software.sh .
7
8 Great idea! What I like best about it is that to change (say) the
9 version of Busybox, now the user would only add a single line
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11 BUSYBOX_VER="1.2.3"
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13 whereas previously four lines
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15 BUSYBOX_VER="1.2.3"
16 BUSYBOX_SRCTAR="${DISTDIR}/busybox-${BUSYBOX_VER}.tar.bz2"
17 BUSYBOX_DIR="busybox-${BUSYBOX_VER}"
18 BUSYBOX_BINCACHE="%%CACHE%%/busybox-${BUSYBOX_VER}-%%ARCH%%.tar.bz2"
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20 would have been needed to fully override the defaults from software.sh.
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22 Excellent. Merged to master.
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24 Best,
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28 Sebastian