Summary: | openmosix-user-0.3.6-r3 doesn't build with 2.4.24 vanilla + official OM patch | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | csights |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Konstantin Arkhipov (RETIRED) <voxus> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
csights
2005-08-17 10:58:08 UTC
This ebuild explicitely depends on openmosix-sources for which Gentoo provides an ebuild. I don't understand why don't you use those. Ah! I see. Thanks for the clue: If the Gentoo userland-tools are diverging from the official openmosix userland tools such that they require the Gentoo openmosix kernel I'll just use the vanilla userland tools from the openmosix website. My preference is that they remain compatible with the generic version of course (especially b/c of the provided init scripts) I don't use Gentoo openmosix because it is not the official patch. If I were using the Gentoo version of openmosix I would not be able to report problems to the openmosix mailing list without having a suspicion that it was Gentoo-patch related. (A question you didn't ask: "Why don't you use the most recent official openmosix patch?") I don't use the most recent version of the official openmosix patch (2.4.26) because a) 2.4.24 works for us, b) we must wait for everyone's programs to finish and then install the new version (this is a waste of time if there are always new versions). Thanks! official openmosix-sources are in portage too, but masked you can use them, if you want. The only openmosix kernel sources that I see in portage are "openmosix-sources Description: Full sources for the Gentoo openMosix Linux kernel 2.6 kernel tree" This isn't the official openmosix + vanilla kernel patch: The unmasked version is 2.4.30. Since the openmosix page lists 2.4.26 as stable, we know this isn't the official openmosix version of the kernel. It is also clear from the changelog for openmosix-sources that earlier kernels are also not vanilla kernel + official openmosix patch. They are patched with security fixes that weren't included in the original vanilla kernel version that the openmosix patch was written for. My opinion is that either the check for openmosix kernel sources is more intelligent, or not done at all. official openMosix location: ${PORtDIR}/sys-kernel/openmosix-sources/openmosix-sources-2.4.26-r1.ebuild you should unmask it before using. |