On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:16:12AM +0400, Michael Raskin wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >What would people think of a patch that made stdenv's uname return the > >same value on every linux? I've only just had the idea and haven't had > >time to think through the possible downsides, but my initial thought is > >that most packages shouldn't need to know the kernel version, and that > >those that have a reason to (e.g. packages that provide kernel modules) > >should be dependent on the kernel passed to the nix expression, rather > >than whatever the kernel happens to be in memory at a given time. Or am I > >wrong? Is there a reason a build should depend on which version of the > > I guess default uname should say version of kernel from kernelheaders > used for glibc, and kernelPackages one should say the kernel version > of the passed kernel?
I'd like a list of the problems this would solve. Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
