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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 01:53, David Relson wrote: |
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> Today when I ran "emerge -au world" I was surprised to see |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r2 [2.6.17-r1] |
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> because I'm presently running a 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 kernel (built from |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r1 using genkernel). |
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> When I run "emerge -C linux-headers" it warns me that |
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> !!! 'sys-kernel/linux-headers' is part of your system profile. |
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> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. |
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which is correct. |
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> Common sense tells me that anything 2.6.19 renders all things |
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> obsolete that relate to 2.6.17. Am I right? |
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No, you totally are wrong. Userland headers (the stuff in /usr/include) and |
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the kernel are two independent entities. Don't mix them up. You need the |
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headers, and it does not matter which kernel version you have. |
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> Also, where is it recorded that linux-headers 2.6.17-r2 is important? |
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> I suspect I ought to delete that info as well. |
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Changelog |
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bugzilla |
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