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Bug 370099

Summary: media-sound/line6usb kernel sources accessed through /lib/modules/`uname -r`
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component: New packagesAssignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: QA    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: Build log

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-06-05 11:58:01 UTC
Created attachment 275883 [details]
Build log

This bug is being reported because this ebuild is currently trying to build against the kernel tree by accessing it through /lib/modules/`uname -r` instead than through /usr/src/linux like it should.

This is bad in many situations, like:

- livecd installs: the running kernel is the one from the livecd and is most
likely not the same the user is installing to;
- livecd chroot fixes: as above;
- generic chroot: running kernel comes from outside, as above;
- kernel updates: users most likely would w
Comment 1 Steve Arnold archtester gentoo-dev 2011-07-22 04:34:49 UTC
If this is an automated QA check, then I'm not sure it's what it thinks it is...  The use of uname is to sed the package Makefile with the correct values from the eclass; if there's a better way, please enlighten...
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2012-12-01 08:18:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> If this is an automated QA check, then I'm not sure it's what it thinks it
> is...  The use of uname is to sed the package Makefile with the correct
> values from the eclass; if there's a better way, please enlighten...
Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-07-14 15:30:52 UTC
no longer in portage, package removed due to this bug and additional reasons like not being compatible with current linux-headers, like eg. 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, ...