On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:32:40PM +0000, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
>> I hope this is going to be binary package manager friendly.
>> In Sabayon for instance, kernel sources are not even installed and at
>> the same time, /proc/config.gz may not even be available.
>> There were some corner cases in where pkg_setup failed because this
>> kernel config check stuff was trying to be "smarter" than the user.
> That was before we made it possible to have CONFIG_CHECK="~FOO" without
> /proc/config.gz, for the bugs you yourself submitted, and I fixed years
> ago.
>
> I would expect that ALL Sabayon users would have CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL=0,
> because they run your kernel (if you have your kernel in a package,
> maybe even distribute a file that triggers it, so anybody else with
> their own kernel still has the default CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL=1).

But we cannot assume that the environment in where packages are built
is the same as the environment in where packages are installed and
run.

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