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From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:47:22
Message-Id: CAN3Atvp=s3tBbB2jG7bDk7uX3EpLxuysyvkECj15tirt=zQrog@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:32:40PM +0000, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
3 >> I hope this is going to be binary package manager friendly.
4 >> In Sabayon for instance, kernel sources are not even installed and at
5 >> the same time, /proc/config.gz may not even be available.
6 >> There were some corner cases in where pkg_setup failed because this
7 >> kernel config check stuff was trying to be "smarter" than the user.
8 > That was before we made it possible to have CONFIG_CHECK="~FOO" without
9 > /proc/config.gz, for the bugs you yourself submitted, and I fixed years
10 > ago.
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12 > I would expect that ALL Sabayon users would have CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL=0,
13 > because they run your kernel (if you have your kernel in a package,
14 > maybe even distribute a file that triggers it, so anybody else with
15 > their own kernel still has the default CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL=1).
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17 But we cannot assume that the environment in where packages are built
18 is the same as the environment in where packages are installed and
19 run.
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23 > Robin Hugh Johnson
24 > Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
25 > E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
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32 Fabio Erculiani