Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] fooling uname
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:57:35
Message-Id: 47B3AF26.8070500@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-catalyst] fooling uname by lurker
1 lurker wrote:
2 > Greetings list,
3 >
4 > Currently catalyst (2.0.5, 2.0.6pre4) doesn't seem to change what uname
5 > outputs. uname -r, for example, prints the version of the kernel running
6 > catalyst, not the kernel that's in the stage. Of course, that's how it
7 > is, but isn't it possible to hack that somehow? It's a bit tedioius to
8 > patch everything that depends on uname (e.g. the raling-rt61 ebuild).
9 > Can the "uname string" be set by some envirnoment variable in an env
10 > script specified in the spec file?
11
12 Any ebuild that depends upon the output of uname is broken and should be fixed.
13
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15 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
16 Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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