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maillog: 19/06/2006-11:13:33(+0000): Alec Warner types |
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> Portage currently exports $KV as the current kernel version. We detect |
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> this by attempting to mess around with the things in /usr/src/linux |
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> (.config, make files, etc...) |
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> This is duplicating the superb efforts of the kernel team and of |
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> linux-info eclass. As such I would like to deprecate $KV in favor of |
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> using linux-info eclass. I don't see the need for portage to export $KV |
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> into the environment for all packages. |
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> There are a few packages left that use this. There will be a tracker |
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> bug shortly. Mostly this mail is just a heads up ;) |
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But any kind of checks against something in $KERNEL_DIR are just wrong, |
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wrong, wrong. The only exception being when the ebuild is building |
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something *against* those sources (kernel modules, and that's it). |
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It's annoying to have virtual/linux-sources pulled as a dep of gnupg, |
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iptables or any other package that can do fine without them. |
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