Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel Sources (sys-kernel & 2005.0)

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:52:36PM +0100, John Mylchreest wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> following the 2005.0 release sys-kernel has had a small tidy up.
> Removed from the tree are:
>
> 	linux26-headers          :- linux-headers
> 	gentoo-dev-sources       :- gentoo-sources
> 	development-sources      :- vanilla-sources
> 	rsbac-dev-sources        :- rsbac-sources
>
> all have been amalgamated into their equivalents. hardened-dev-sources
> and hardened-sources still exist in their entirety. If a member of
> hardened could confirm the future of these please?
>
> Any problems fire them my way.
I've got one for you, since it seems you missed the big discussion last
week of 'MOVE != MERGE', and didn't update any instances of the above
packages in the tree to reflect the new package names...

In a package that I maintain (sys-apps/readahead-list), I have this
DEPEND data (fluff left out):
DEPEND="virtual/os-headers
		!=sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1*"

This is because I found that the linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 did NOT work (I
filed bug #86178 about it, it's another manifestation of bug #83224).

However, linux-headers-2.6.8.1* do seem to to work perfectly fine, as do
linux-headers-2.6.11. This is going to cause lots of pains for users
that want to have the package.

Your merge of the two trees above is non-ideal, as the ebuilds that had
matching version numbers don't seem to have identical ebuilds, so what
the user actually has is dependant on what the package was called when
it was installed.

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