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>> >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. General idea is to forcibly remove one more impurity. FF6.0 release manages to trigger it. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
