Hi Shea, Shea Levy <[email protected]> skribis:
> On 10/01/2011 05:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Shea Levy<[email protected]> skribis: >> >>> Author: shlevy >>> Date: Fri Sep 30 15:34:37 2011 >>> New Revision: 29546 >>> URL: https://ssl.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=29546&sc=1 >>> >>> Log: >>> Have the kernel headers be a linuxPackage, use the current linuxPackage's >>> headers >> I think you don’t want to do it because this would create more coupling >> than needed between Linux and the GNU libc, and because it would >> increase the frequency of full rebuilds (LTS Linux releases are more >> frequent than stdenv updates in Nixpkgs.) [...] > If you look at my next few commits, I add two passthru attributes to > pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/generic.nix to set the headersSrc and > headersVersion if the default kernel is updated so we can avoid > rebuilds. Right, I hadn’t seen them. > IMO the linux headers are absolutely a kernel package and it's silly > to have a different expression file Yes, agreed. OTOH the proposed single expression with meta.passthru doesn’t look so much easier, does it? :-) Thanks, Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
