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

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 02:58, Travis Tilley 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).
>

I and Solar is working on getting bootstrap-2.6.sh (or maby an
merged version) ready to work seemlessly with linux26-headers.
Hopefully in the next two weeks if testing are going as planned.

> 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. :)

I do not know about non-x86 arches, but I make sure 'make check' pass
for NPTL as well as run it for a day or two before commit.

I think the biggest problem with getting it into stable previously
(and for the next few weeks), is the headers issue - we could not
just unmask 2.6 headers.  Hopefully if 2.6.6-r1 or latest 2.6.7
linux26-headers test ok, and we get headway with bootstrap.sh, we
can really think about 'offical' NPTL support ...


Cheers,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa