[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nix] f2467e: On Linux, pretend we're building on Linux 2.6

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Thu Apr 5 20:29:18 CEST 2012


Hi,

On 05/04/12 18:57, Shea Levy wrote:

> Shouldn't this be a concern of nixpkgs? 

It's Nix's job to ensure a consistent build environment (as much as possible).

> What happens when our
> kernel-headers are updated to 3.x?

Why would that be a problem?

> And is nix itself not expected to 
> work on 2.4 kernels?

This change shouldn't have any effect on Linux 2.4 (and I doubt that Nixpkgs
still works on 2.4).

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