On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 03:07:11 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 02:42, David Relson wrote: > > 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 2.6.19 headers break all sorts of things.. > > -- > Bo Andresen
All the replies are appreciated! I hadn't considered that special patches might be needed to make the kernel's header files useful in user land. This thread shows the truth of the old maxim: Ask and ye shall learn. Thank y'all. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
