Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers-2.6* now linux26-headers

[Alan Schmitt]

* Travis Tilley (lv@g.o) wrote:
> just a heads up - i've moved all the 2.6 header packages to
> sys-kernel/linux26-headers so that they can be keyworded without having them
> accidentally install on the system of a 2.4 kernel user. hopefully soon this
> will mean we can unmask the newer glibc ebuilds on x86, which have a dep on
> the 2.6 headers when using nptl (instead of using /usr/src/linux, which is
> problematic at best and quite often broken at worst).
>
> another note re: NPTL is that nptl no longer has a version number of it's own
> as of 2004-06-29. i'm guessing this means that ulrich drepper considers nptl
> to be fairly stable, but i dont think i'll be so quick to put words in his
> mouth. when i'm sure that everything's good and calm with the linux26-headers
> change i'll poke at making a new snapshot to see if it passes "make check"
> yet. :)

Following the announcement that the linux26 headers were now ~x86, I 
decided to try them, along with the migration to nptl. After a (longish 
;-) ) emerge -e system, everything seems to work fine (I just had some 
trouble starting X, but emerging nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel solved 
it).

I know this is just a WFM message, but it might encourage others to try 
it.

Alan Schmitt

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