On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:33 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:26:03AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > You are correct in that the virtuals file is read.  The easiest way
> > would be for you to create your own profile and use that instead.
> 
> Ok! Thanks a lot. You tried the same as me, and got the same results. Now I
> understand the virtuals 'cascade'. But I think I could use profile
> "default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34/2.6/", isn't it? Anyway, using it, emerge keeps
> on trying to get linux-headers for 2.4.

There is no profile in portage using 2.6 headers as default that I am
aware of.

> (By now, I changed the virtuals in default-linux/x86 and default-linux). That
> isn't very pretty... but that's what I did. ;)

You probably would have done better to have created a sub-profile of
default-linux/x86/2004.3 to suit your needs.  You would have only have
had to have changed the virtuals file to include "virtual/os-headers
linux26-headers"

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux