Finally I got the answer I wanted!
Marius Mauch wrote:
I have recently upgraded to gentoo-sources 2.6.1. Now portage wants to emerge old 2.4 headers for some reason. What is causing it to do that? How can I avoid it? (I do not feel that application compiled with those is very safe to run).
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0587.html
So now my situation is:
My initial gentoo installation was compiled with 2.4 kernel (and so was my still used glibc). Then I upgraded to gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1 and wondered why /usr/src/linux was not pointing to new kernel sources. I thougth that it was a mistake and I have symlinked it to 2.6 sources. Now I should probably revert it back to 2.4.x sources, shouldn't I?
But I do not expect portage to detect that change, so basically it will still ask for installing kernel-headers. Despite me having installed 3 versions of complete gentoo-sources from 2.4.x... Why these cannot be used?
Is it safe just to inject header if my /usr/src/linux points to 2.4.22 sources? Where emerge will put this kernel headers?
Wouldn't it be more wise to recompile glibc for kernel 2.6 (or may be glibc needs to be ported to this new kernel headers first ? :) ).
With -vp portage now tries to show the download size, this information is kept in the so called digests. But for some packages there is nothing to download which results in no digest for that package, however the necessary function does not differentiate between a missing and a broken digest so portage displays a generic message in case there is an error. We'll probably add another test to hide the message if there really is nothing to download, but for now just ignore it.
A good news, indeed. Basically you are saying that my portage tree is intact :)
Andrzej
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