On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06:43 am, Jans Han Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I made a mistake since I thought what you are talking about is
> *linux26-headers* instead of *linux-headers-2.6*, and
> *linux26-headers* is unmasked while *linux-headers-2.6* masked.
>
> Now I'm confused with this two ebuilds. What's the differences between
> them?
The linux kernel normally has 2 (or 3) versions available. The latest even
minor version ("unstable"), the minor version before that ("stable"), and
sometime the latest odd minor version ("development"). [Actually, this
policy may have changed; Linus seems to really like just using mm-sources
as a "development" line.]
linux-headers (and gentoo-sources and vanilla-sources) reflect the current
stable version [according to /gentoo/, which will generally be the
"stable" kernel version or late-cycle "unstable"]. linux??-headers (and
gentoo-dev-sources and development sources) reflect the current unstable
version [again, according to /gentoo/, which will generally be the
"ustable" kernel version].
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