[Nix-dev] Patching uname in stdenv?

[Shea Levy]

On 08/17/2011 03:16 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What would people think of a patch that made stdenv's uname return the
>> same value on every linux? I've only just had the idea and haven't had
>> time to think through the possible downsides, but my initial thought is
>> that most packages shouldn't need to know the kernel version, and that
>> those that have a reason to (e.g. packages that provide kernel modules)
>> should be dependent on the kernel passed to the nix expression, rather
>> than whatever the kernel happens to be in memory at a given time. Or am I
>> wrong? Is there a reason a build should depend on which version of the
> I guess default uname should say version of kernel from kernelheaders
> used for glibc, and kernelPackages one should say the kernel version
> of the passed kernel?
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Default being the version of kernelheaders seems like the way to do it. 
Not sure how stdenv is supposed to find out which version of the kernel 
was passed for kernelPackages, though.