On Monday 30 April 2007, Holla wrote:
> OK, I get it now. I was under the (wrong) impression that
> the kernel headers should match the kernel installed.
> So, if portage is trying to install linux-headers-2.6.17
> it is because that is the stable headers for 2.6, right ?
Not quite...
nazgul cvs-src # eix linux-headers
[I] sys-kernel/linux-headers
Available versions: *2.0.40-r1 *2.2.26-r1 2.4.26-r1 (~)2.4.33.3
2.6.8.1-r4 2.6.11-r2 (~)2.6.11-r3 *2.6.11-r4 2.6.11-r5 *2.6.11-r6
*2.6.16 (~)2.6.17 2.6.17-r1 2.6.17-r2 (~)2.6.19.2-r2 (~)2.6.20 (~)
2.6.20-r1 (~)2.6.20-r2
Installed versions: 2.6.20-r2(18:30:20 03/18/07)
Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/
Description: Linux system headers
linux-headers-2.6.17-r1 is the collection of headers in the portage tree
that the Gentoo devs have marked stable (and causes least breakage).
There is no official set of headers fromt he kernel project. You might
find some knowledgeable kernel dev who makes a recommendation, but
that's something different.
As it turns out, I am using 2.6.20-r2 headers and they work for me.
Generally, if you run a stable <arch> system, you should stick with
whatever system packages that portage wants to merge
alan
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