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From: lurker <lurker@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] fooling uname
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:29:06
Message-Id: 47B425FF.90605@lavabit.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] fooling uname by Andrew Gaffney
1 On 14/02/08 04:01, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
2 > lurker wrote:
3 >> Greetings list,
4 >>
5 >> Currently catalyst (2.0.5, 2.0.6pre4) doesn't seem to change what uname
6 >> outputs. uname -r, for example, prints the version of the kernel running
7 >> catalyst, not the kernel that's in the stage. Of course, that's how it
8 >> is, but isn't it possible to hack that somehow? It's a bit tedioius to
9 >> patch everything that depends on uname (e.g. the raling-rt61 ebuild).
10 >> Can the "uname string" be set by some envirnoment variable in an env
11 >> script specified in the spec file?
12 >
13 > Any ebuild that depends upon the output of uname is broken and should be
14 > fixed.
15
16 Sorry, I meant the compile scripts, e.g. the Makefile of ralink-rt61.
17
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] fooling uname Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>