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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 20:27, C. Brewer wrote: |
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> Well I did not say my way was a definative answer, merely a suggestion. I |
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> believe you meant to say the kernel sources ebuild provides that link, |
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> which Patrick suggested that could be easily put out of date, and Spider |
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> suggested he might not keep the sources for. But how is my asking the link |
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> get dropped "awkward and notworking"? You just pointed out the link doesn't |
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> change if it preexists, so the benefit is that your unattended install just |
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> dumped your modules into the wrong place, when you have it pointing at the |
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> wrong kernel. So if you need to keep changing this link back and forth to |
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> suit where the modules go, doesn't this become user preference rather than |
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> system preference? |
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You need to have the sources anyway to build a module. What is esp. |
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problematic is first installs. One should install a kernel before the final |
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is finished (the install man). Normally one also wants to install the modules |
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for this kernel. Once people have at least one running kernel, they can at |
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least fallback to it. |
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> There is no easy answer to this problem, but it seems nobody want to tackle |
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> it either( along with multiple versions of the same modules packages.) |
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This is something that is high on my wishlist (it should even be doable). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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