I'm running a Gentoo guest on an openvz kernel version 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.028stab045.1 (redhat I think). When I tried to emerge iptables portage wanted to pull in gentoo-sources. After reading the portage man page I worked around this by adding 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3' to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Then I manually extracted a vanilla 2.6.18 kernel in /usr/src and created the 'linux' symlink. iptables emerged ok after this and seems to work. I have a couple of questions though:
- What happens when gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3 is obsoleted and removed from the portage tree? Will I have to update package.provided down the road? - Should I have applied all the underlying distro's patches to the vanilla sources before compiling iptables? Or should I have applied Gentoo's patches? i.e. are the headers used by iptables stable or are they likely to have been modified? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
