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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:16:24 -0500 |
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Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> The kernel ( along with QA ) has reported that the portage generated |
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> $KV is sometimes quite horribly wrong. They would like us to retire |
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> the kernel generated $KV, ebuilds that need $KV should inherit |
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> linux-info, unless they are themselves a kernel-module, in which case |
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> they should inherit linux-mod. |
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> This also consolidates all the kernel version parsing nastiness into 1 |
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> place ( the eclass ) which means less work for us! |
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> The QA team will run testing against the tree to locate incorrect uses |
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> of $KV, granted the KV value is probably wrong right now for some |
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> users, we still need to migrate them over. |
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> We may need to retain the $KV variable for EAPI 0 portage, but I think |
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> that could actually depend on how bad the migration really is. |
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Hmm, I thought we removed that crap long ago already... |
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Let it die I say. |
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Marius |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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