Mailing List Archive: linux headers

linux headers

Apr 5, 2005, 6:47 PM

Post #1 of 3 (1804 views)

I was about to run an emerge -ua system . I noticed
that it wants to upgrade linux-headers to 2.6.8.1-r2
from the current (on my system) 2.4.23 . I am still
running a 2.4 kernel (a topic for another thread).
Will things break if I upgrade the linux-headers
package?

sorry if that sounds like a dumb newbie question and
not very alpha specific....

Jeff D

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Re: linux headers [ In reply to ]

kloeri at gentoo

Apr 6, 2005, 12:37 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1755 views)

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I've just masked 2.6 headers in all profiles but the default 2005.0
profile. This way you wont end up with a 2.4 kernel + 2.6 headers which
is known to cause segfaults.

If you decide to use a 2.6 kernel and would like to use 2.6 headers as
well you can either upgrade to the 2005.0 profile or use
/etc/portage/package.unmask to unmask 2.6 headers.

Regards,
Bryan Ã˜stergaard

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:47:58PM -0700, Jeff Donsbach wrote:
>
> I was about to run an emerge -ua system . I noticed
> that it wants to upgrade linux-headers to 2.6.8.1-r2
> from the current (on my system) 2.4.23 . I am still
> running a 2.4 kernel (a topic for another thread).
> Will things break if I upgrade the linux-headers
> package?
>
> sorry if that sounds like a dumb newbie question and
> not very alpha specific....
>
> Jeff D
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________
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Re: linux headers [ In reply to ]

jeff_donsbach at yahoo

Apr 6, 2005, 12:47 PM

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Thanks, Bryan.

Yes, my profile is pointing at 2004.3 currently. I'll
sync again tonight.

--- Bryan Oestergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I've just masked 2.6 headers in all profiles but the
> default 2005.0
> profile. This way you wont end up with a 2.4 kernel
> + 2.6 headers which
> is known to cause segfaults.
>
> If you decide to use a 2.6 kernel and would like to
> use 2.6 headers as
> well you can either upgrade to the 2005.0 profile or
> use
> /etc/portage/package.unmask to unmask 2.6 headers.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan Ã˜stergaard

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