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Holly Bostick <motub <at> planet.nl> writes: |
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> I said that the situation of upgrading a kernel with the 'symlink' USE |
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> flag active occurring at the same time as a (particular) program needing |
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> to compile against a configured kernel was not likely to occur all that |
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> often, but I was wrong. It's happened again today, but with a different |
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> program than the ones I normally keep an eye on. |
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> The good thing is that I (think I) see what the problem is. |
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> The problem is that Portage emerges the new kernel before (almost) |
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> everything else, without regard for whether the 'symlink' USE flag is |
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> active, and whether or not any of the other programs proposed to emerge |
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> need to compile against a configured kernel source-- or rather, the |
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> currently-running kernel, which the symlink most likely pointed to |
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> before Portage changed it via a previous emerge. |
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Folks either I'm missing the boat entirely, or this is far simpler |
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than these correspondances indicate. |
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/etc/src contains this: |
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rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 24 14:54 .keep |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 3 16:35 linux -> linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r5 |
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drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1280 Oct 5 16:42 linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 |
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drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1280 Nov 22 16:21 linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r5 |
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drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 688 Oct 30 01:02 linux-2.6.14-gentoo |
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drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 688 Nov 14 02:45 linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 |
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drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 688 Nov 17 21:04 linux-2.6.14.2 |
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But since my symlink is to the 'linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r5' kernel |
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source, that is what all of my packages use as a default to |
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compile against, unless I use some of these techniques that |
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others have listed? Am I correct? |
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I have several kernel-sources later than 'linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r5' |
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some vanilla some gentoo. How would portage know which one to |
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compile against if not the symlink set in /usr/src? |
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Did I miss something or this conversation only relevant if |
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one chooses to set USE flags in lieu of a symlink in /usr/src? |
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Why would you want to control this behavior with a USE flag |
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versus an 'old fashion symlink' in /usr/src? |
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confused............ |
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James |
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