[pacman-dev] Kernel Provision
Would it be alright for kernel packages to provide for others that depend on in-kernel features/functionalities, say, those from patches? Right now kernel26 has the linux-phc patch, and the following is a GUI tool to do what can be done, well, graphically: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17059 As you can see, it could either skip the kernel26 dependency and tell the user about the patch in install script - or - include the dependency like the above case and expect the user to adjust PKGBUILD for other kernels with the same patch.
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
Would it be alright for kernel packages to provide for others that depend on in-kernel features/functionalities, say, those from patches? Right now kernel26 has the linux-phc patch, and the following is a GUI tool to do what can be done, well, graphically: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17059
As you can see, it could either skip the kernel26 dependency and tell the user about the patch in install script - or - include the dependency like the above case and expect the user to adjust PKGBUILD for other kernels with the same patch.
Yeah, that seems doable, there could be a virtual linux-phc provision, provided by kernel26 packages and other kernel packages with that patch. Then this phctool could depend on linux-phc.
2008/5/20 Ray Rashif <schivmeister@gmail.com>:
Would it be alright for kernel packages to provide for others that depend on in-kernel features/functionalities, say, those from patches? Right now kernel26 has the linux-phc patch
wasn't it dropped in 2.6.25 packages? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Oh I didn't know that \= Anyway there may be other such kernels and yes a virtual provision is exactly what I'm thinking. Actually replaces could take care of it too but then it wouldn't make sense. So in the future, if say something like linux-phc is back in with some userspace tool being available, we could consider providing - thanks (:
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