On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:11 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2008, lurker wrote:
> > Currently catalyst (2.0.5, 2.0.6pre4) doesn't seem to change what uname
> > outputs. uname -r, for example, prints the version of the kernel running
> > catalyst, not the kernel that's in the stage. Of course, that's how it
> > is, but isn't it possible to hack that somehow? It's a bit tedioius to
> > patch everything that depends on uname (e.g. the raling-rt61 ebuild).
> > Can the "uname string" be set by some envirnoment variable in an env
> > script specified in the spec file?
> 
> stages dont have kernels

Indeed.  As Andrew has said and Mike as alluded to, not a single
catalyst target has a kernel compiled prior to stage4/livecd-stage2, so
there's no reason for this.  Any ebuild that uses uname for *anything*
is broken and a bug should be filed to have the package fixed.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Games Developer

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