Bug 599 – Need kernel-version detection function or script in ebuilds

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Arcady Genkin 2002-02-08 00:44:28 UTC]

Some portages need to know the version of the currently installed kernel (e.g.
nvidia-kernel, alsa-driver).  To avoid code duplication, we need have a function
or a script, accessible in the ebuilds, that would produce the needed value.

I adopted some code from the old nvidia ebuild to take a stab at such a
function.  It can be downloaded from here:

  http://cdf.toronto.edu/~agenkin/kernel_version

I don't have enough experience with the portage system to suggest whether it's
better to keep this as a shell script, or just to yank the function out of it
and put it someplace else.

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-02-08 10:51:16 UTC]

Maybe this function could be called "mykernel"?  Dunno.

[Comment 2 Arcady Genkin 2002-02-08 10:57:32 UTC]

I have no preference.  Actually, I really hate "my*" names, because they are so
microsoftish, but that's totally beyond the point. ;^)

[Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-02-21 01:16:02 UTC]

fixed on CVS.  KV is now automatically defined for all ebuilds, and will be set
to "" in the case that there's an error (rather than bombing out, which would be
bad).  Once we have this in a production Portage, developers can simply use $KV
with no other extra special steps.