On Tuesday 21 October 2003 1:15, Grant Goodyear wrote: > So you move the sources from /usr/src/ to /opt, or you don't use the > various kernel-sources ebuilds? If you're moving the sources, what > makes /opt better than /usr/src?
Actually, I used to rsync the tree to my home dir, but that became tedious and time consuming, as well as trying to inject enough stuff to satisfy all the virtuals became a headache. So yes, I move the sources to /opt, and it's not a "better" thing..but packages dont look for /opt/usr/src/linux-* either. Makes it easier to spot an offending package and try to get it fixed/ resolved. > Incidentally, I'm quite glad that /usr/src/linux is the target of a lot > of our ebuilds, since it's fairly common for me to build and install > alsa, pcmcia, and nvidia modules for the kernel I'm about to boot into. > (Why do I want to build the modules before rebooting? Because that way I > don't have to spend twenty minutes in console mode before I can have > working sound, video, and networking.) Perfectly understandable, if you have that many modules needing built, I'd probably want to build it beforehand, also. But for one or two non-critical packages, it would be easier to be running the kernel they need to go to. But as my disclaimer, I did point out a nice selectable interface for choosing the target kernel would be preferred over the current symlink solution. -- Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred.
pgp00000.pgp
Description: signature
