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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:13:33AM +0000, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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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 $KV |
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> into the environment for all packages. |
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> There are a few packages left that use this. There will be a tracker |
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> bug shortly. Mostly this mail is just a heads up ;) |
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I've been after this for quite a long time (I opened a bug but cant seem |
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to find it) as not only is it horrifically broken, it also should never |
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have been the job of portage internals anyways. |
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$KV is currently being exported by linux-info purely for legacy support |
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and as such I would like to suggest that if these ebuilds inherit |
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linux-info as well as use $KV, then it should not require any maintainer |
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changes. |
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Anything I can do to encourage this move please let me know, and many |
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thanks for raising this again. |
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Best Regards, |
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John |
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