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Hello Rick, |
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I dare moving this thread to the genkernel list, as it doesn't seem |
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private to me and could use more input, specially xake's, see below. |
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On 07/08/2012 10:55 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: |
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> I believe we have a fairly major issue in how we handle genkernel |
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> right now. Every time I install genkernel I modify |
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> /etc/genkernel.conf which means when an upgrade or something else |
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> happens I have to either re-modify genkernel.conf again, or simply |
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> refuse the new config file and stick with the old... guess which |
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> one I pick... |
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agreed. Peter/xake has voiced concerns about this before, too. |
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> Point being I think a lot of bugs like this one: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419511 come into being |
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> because people are not updating their config files properly. |
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I'm not sure if that's really what happened there. Nevertheless, I |
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see your point. |
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> I propose we break it into two different config files (or not use |
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> a config file at all for the versioning as really the user |
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> shouldn't be changing things like that only genkernel devs |
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> should). |
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> Thoughts? |
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We could move variables .. |
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{BUSY_BOX,LVM,MDADM,DMRAID,ISCSI,FUSE,UNIONFS,GPG}_{VER,SRCTAR,DIR,BINCACHE} |
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.. to another file and source that file on top of genkernel.conf, or |
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something like that. |
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It seems there are /usr/share/genkernel/arch/*/config.sh and |
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/usr/share/genkernel/defaults/config.sh already. Interestingly, the |
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defaults/config.sh does not seem to be taken into account by anthing, |
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though I may be missing something. Am I? |
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One way could be to move the version stuff to defaults/config.sh and |
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add a command to source that one to all the arch-specific ones. |
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Best, |
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Sebastian |
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