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  • From: David Brown <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>
  • To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Linux Spell Custom Kernel Issues
  • Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:35:52 -0700



On 10/28/05, Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:09:19AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> > However it's done, we could use something like this. It would make things
> > like xen easier to deal with. It would also help with the spells that
> > build kernel modules... we've been changing those to use sorcery functions
> > to find the last built version of the kernel to figure out what tree to
> > build against. I know it has fallback if the linux spell isn't there, but
> > if someone has left the linux spell installed and just done their own
> > kernels past that I imagine it gets confused. It would be nice if those
> > advanced/custom kernels could still get themselves "registered" with
> > sorcery.
>
>
>
> Okay so making a external set of scripts and trying to make it 'register'
> with sorcery would be too much haxxory against sorcery and andrew probably
> wouldn't like it. So probably a spell would be the method of doing this
> 'advanced kernel compile'

The idea has come up before for certain things but it was a pretty low
priority thing. The motivation at the time was for cpan modules, and
hacking up cpan to tell sorcery what modules it installed (paraphrased
and summarized). If its useful to people we can put it in, although like
all sorcery features, it has to wait its turn.

Okay so if an external script were to be implemented that would 'register' with sorcery what sort of time line would we be looking at for implementation in sorcery?








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