On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:51:41 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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> 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].
>
Then should I exactly use linux-headers with gentoo-sources and
accordingly only use linux??-headers with gentoo-dev-sources?
Or (linux-headers + gentoo-dev-sources) || (linux??-headers +
gentoo-sources) is OK, too?
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