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Nuno J. Silva posted on Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:06:35 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> I am almost sure the current check does *not* use config.gz but |
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> /usr/src/linux/.config. At least, I've not had config.gz enabled for a |
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> long time, and I've always seen the checks working. In fact, I think the |
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> checks print something along the lines of "looking for kernel source |
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> under /usr/src/linux... found config for linux-...". |
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Actually, AFAIK the current check looks for both config.gz and in the |
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kernel sources dir, since often one or the other isn't available, but a |
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lot of the time one or the other /is/ available, as well. (The kernel |
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can be configured without config.gz, and the sources symlink might be |
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stale and point to something not installed any more, or maybe the |
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partition containing the sources isn't mounted, or maybe the sources dir |
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is there but belongs to a user other than portage or root, with |
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permissions such that portage can't access it.) |
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So the current check is for whichever one it can find. I don't know |
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which it checks first and whether it checks both if the first is there |
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but comes up with a problem, but if one is there and not the other, it |
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should properly find and use the one, regardless of which one it is. |
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(Of course the checks are in the eclass. Anyone sufficiently curious |
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could just go look to see what it did.) |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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