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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Dependency Question
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:12:42
Message-Id: 20010620081242.A18359@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Dependency Question by Sean Mitchell
1 On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:48:51AM -0400, Sean Mitchell wrote:
2 >
3 > Wondering how the dependencies work for this situation....
4 >
5 > If I install linux-sources-xxxxx and then build myself a kernel, it seems
6 > that any package that requires linux-kernel-xxxxx goes ahead and installs
7 > it.
8 >
9 > It seems to me that the sources should (once compiled) give me eveything the
10 > kernel package gives me. Is this the case or am I missing something? I
11 > suppose I could change the deps in the ebuild but it would be better if
12 > there was some sort of global override. I RTFM but didn't see anything that
13 > explained this to me.
14
15 Your assumptions are correct; this shouldn't happen. Please report the specific
16 versions of the kernel packages you installed so that we can look into it.
17
18 Best Regards,
19
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21 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
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