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