Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on kernel module ebuilds, etc

[Peter Johanson]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:01:57AM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> what about /usr/src/linus-beta?
>
/usr/src/linux-beta is a convension that was added to "match" the
/usr/src/linux convension from 2.4 kernels. Ultimately, it gets ugly
doing things like having a configurable "Look here, no wait look here!"
method for figuring out which kernel tree symlinks to use.

Consider /usr/src/linux-beta a convenient symlink to have around, but
portage will always be using /usr/src/linux for the say in how things
get handled. Once it looks at /usr/src/linux, it can then figure out
whether it's dealing with a 2.4 or a 2.6 kernel and go from there.

-pete

> -John
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 03:44, Peter Johanson wrote:
> > hey all,
> >
> > in my work on bug #32737 for external module compilation, i've come
> > upon one or two instances of problems with kernel module ebuilds. Wanted
> > to shoot out a quick reminder/announcement about it.
> >
> > Kernel module ebuilds should *always* pull their information from
> > /usr/src/linux/ and not from using `uname` or looking in /proc, etc.
> > Ebuilds need to remain as "location agnostic" as possible so that liveCD
> > building and other things people might be doing do not affect things.
> > (image someone doing a bunch of ebuild installations for some kernel so
> > they can tar up the bzImage and /lib/modules/${KV} for another box using
> > portage.)
> >
> > So whenever possible, please grab all your info from /usr/src/linux
> >
> > Thanks for listening to my mini-rant. (:
> >
> > -pete



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