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