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On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Felix Kuperjans |
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<felix@××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 18:39, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Thanks, this works (never heard of this file before). But there is |
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>>> one small problem: no wildcards are allowed, so whenever new sorces |
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>>> come I'll have to edit package.provided again, and again... BTW why |
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>>> should kmod depend on kernel-sources? Or even better, why should be |
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>>> kmod installed, if I have static (non-modular) kernel? |
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>> Because your use case is not standard. The normal situation for users |
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>> with kmod installed (and you have already kmod installed, since in |
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>> your --pretend run appears as to be reinstalled) is for them to use |
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>> kernel modules. The developers cannot handle every possible |
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>> combination of configurations, so defaults are set for the least weird |
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>> cases, or the common case even. |
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>> Your setup is not the norm; therefore, it depends on you to keep it as |
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>> you like it. |
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>> |
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>> Regards. |
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> The case is actually quite common; Linux *sources* are only needed for |
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Even if it is "quite common" (which I doubt) is not the norm. The |
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Gentoo Handbook[1] and Gentoo Linux Kernel Guide[2] only discusses one |
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method to get kernel which you can boot: installing one of the |
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several sources packages available under sys-kernel/*-sources, and |
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configuring it manually or via genkernel. |
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> building kernels on the local machine (and - if used - additional |
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> modules like nvidia-drivers). |
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> Anyone who does not build the kernel on the local machine, e.g. taking |
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> stock kernels from Debian/Fedora/..., kernel provided by |
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> netboot/openvz/Xen domUs or build them remotely will almost never need |
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> linux-sources installed. |
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Yeah, and you can install the kernel that your cousin Billy compiled |
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for you. Neither of those methods are the norm, as covered by the |
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Gentoo documentation, and therefore if you use those methods, you are |
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on your own. |
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> BTW this will also add full kernel sources to all stage3 archives, |
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> increasing their size quite significantly. |
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Which has nothing to do with the topic at hand. |
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Regards. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap7 |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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