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From: "aleiphoenix ." <aleiphoenix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Inter-package dependencies.
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 05:31:05
Message-Id: CAPTGtd7GAhSHkS-YKnCrZBLHKZ6Gf_A=e2Ed3Dz_ukcG8TN8mQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Inter-package dependencies. by Grant Taylor
1 On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:20 AM Grant Taylor
2 <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
3 >
4 > After the good input that I received in the "Preventing new versions of
5 > gentoo-sources…" thread, I figured I'd ask this question:
6 >
7 > Is there a way to cause ebuild file to limit the version of other
8 > packages, e.g. net-misc/openvswitch's limiting sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
9 > to a supported kernel version?
10 >
11 > Open vSwitch 2.10 (current non-testing) supports kernel versions 3.10 to
12 > 4.17. (http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/faq/releases/)
13
14 See some ebuilds like x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-430.14.ebuild
15
16 if use kernel_linux && kernel_is ge 5 2; then
17 ewarn "Gentoo supports kernels which are supported by NVIDIA"
18 ewarn "which are limited to the following kernels:"
19 ewarn "<sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.2"
20 ewarn "<sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-5.2"
21 ewarn ""
22 ewarn "You are free to utilize epatch_user to provide whatever"
23 ewarn "support you feel is appropriate, but will not receive"
24 ewarn "support as a result of those changes."
25 ewarn ""
26 ewarn "Do not file a bug report about this."
27 ewarn ""
28 fi
29
30 You could die there :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Inter-package dependencies. "aleiphoenix ." <aleiphoenix@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: Inter-package dependencies. Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>