On Tuesday 05 December 2006 02:42, David Relson wrote: > On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:23:49 -0500 > > Statux wrote: > > The old way of doing things was to make the following two symlinks: > > > > /usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux > > /usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm > > > > Then the second would be linked to the correct set of asm headers for > > your architecture, etc, inside the linux kernel source tree. > > > > Somewhere along the lines, the symlinking idea became deprecated in > > favor of using a hard set of header files. I forget why this came to > > be but I agree that at some point, a newer kernel must render some > > portion of an old set of headers outdated. I think the linux-headers > > package is intended to be kept as up to date as possible to avoid > > interface changes/incompatibilities. Why it's not kept even and why > > the redundancy? Good questions. > > > > I would figure that if you wanted to manually maintain a hard set of > > headers and keep them installed in the correct places, you're free to > > do so but the linux-headers package has been properly maintained from > > my experience. > > > > My $0.02. > > Interesting. At the moment emerge is updating my linux-headers from > 2.6.17-r1 to 2.6.17-r2. The first step is downloading > linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2 which, at 41MB, seems more like a complete kernel > source tree than just the headers. Overkill, eh?
maybe. The sources are downloaded, the headers extracted and patched. > > It's interesting to compare the keywords of > Linux-headers-2.6.19.ebuild, i.e. "-*", to gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r1 > which has "~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86". If I'm interpreting these > correction, gentoo-sources is available but unstable while the headers > (a subset of the source) is completely masked out. I wonder why that > would be??? because the right patches of the headers are not there yet? Again, don't confuse userspace headers and kernel versions. They can be completly independent and there is nothing to worry about. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
