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On Monday 30 April 2007, Holla wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I would like to install my own version of the kernel (2.6.18.3) |
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> which i have compiled and installed. This is working fine. |
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OK |
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> But when I try to do 'emerge system', portage is |
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> trying to emerge linux-headers also. How can I prevent |
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> it ? |
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Why do you want to do that? |
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The kernel and kernel headers are completely different things and have |
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nothing to do with each other, except that the headers came out of a |
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kernel tarball once. |
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The kernel source is the kernel source, it's a free-standing compilable |
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block of C. |
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The kernel-headers are there so the *user*apps*and*libs* know what |
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definitions of data structures to use. In very broad terms, someone |
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takes the .h files out of a kernel release that are known to be stable |
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and work well and make them available to user-space compilation. Gentoo |
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puts them in /usr/include/{asm,linux}. Leave them there. |
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Or have you been reading the stuff in /usr/src/linux/Documentation about |
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how you shouldn't put kernel sources in /usr/src/linux? |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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