Re: [gentoo-dev] moving kernel config checks forward: potential config checking tool

2021-09-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 11:47:38PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > Can we consider moving the checks for set A somewhere else, such that we > > don't check the kernel config during package compile & install time, but > > only check it later? This also meaningfully resolves that cases where > > the

Re: [gentoo-dev] moving kernel config checks forward: potential config checking tool

2021-09-27 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 19:14 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I wanted to break the prior thread to discuss the root issue. > > We have some set of packages (A) which collectively depend on one or > more kernel options being set in specific ways, and the options need to > REMAIN set if you want

Re: [gentoo-dev] moving kernel config checks forward: potential config checking tool

2021-09-27 Thread Peter Stuge
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > We have some set of packages (A) which collectively depend on one or > more kernel options being set in specific ways, and the options need to > REMAIN set if you want the packages to continue work. .. > Can we consider moving the checks for set A somewhere else, such

[gentoo-dev] moving kernel config checks forward: potential config checking tool

2021-09-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
I wanted to break the prior thread to discuss the root issue. We have some set of packages (A) which collectively depend on one or more kernel options being set in specific ways, and the options need to REMAIN set if you want the packages to continue work. There are also a subset of packages