Bug 283266

Summary:	linux-info.eclass: make check_extra_config optional and do not depend on linux-sources
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) <hollow>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Miscellaneous <kernel-misc>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-30 18:02:05 UTC

Hi!

it would be nice if the config checks from linux-info.eclass could be disabled together with the DEPEND on virtual/linux-sources through a variable in make.conf (like LINUX_INFO_NOCHECK or sth like that). i have a lot of vservers running which do not have and do not need kernel sources. it would probably be a good idea to elog the required kconfig options for completeness sake, but since i am pretty sure what i am doing it's a pita to install and configure kernel sources for every other vserver where it isn't needed at all

thanks

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2010-01-10 08:35:42 UTC

This is part of the work in bug #283320, where linux-info will no longer bring in linux-sources.

check_extra_config WILL still run, but if no configuration is available, there are only warnings.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 283320 ***