From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6298 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2004 11:40:33 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Jul 2004 11:40:33 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BjzAe-0005gV-HR for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:40:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 24746 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jul 2004 11:40:32 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 23626 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2004 11:40:31 +0000 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:40:29 +0200 From: Alan Schmitt To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040712114029.GA14102@alan-schm1p> References: <200407092058.23820.lv@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407092058.23820.lv@gentoo.org> X-Editor: Vim http://vim.sf.net/ X-Info: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~aschmitt/ X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.7-gentoo-r8 (i686) X-Uptime: 13:37:58 up 5 min, 2 users, load average: 0.79, 0.55, 0.24 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers-2.6* now linux26-headers X-Archives-Salt: 07957a7a-be20-42e6-b160-38fc19d24738 X-Archives-Hash: c8a6044021e983fdcd7fcd6f8a44e5f0 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Travis Tilley (lv@gentoo.org) wrote: > just a heads up - i've moved all the 2.6 header packages to=20 > sys-kernel/linux26-headers so that they can be keyworded without having t= hem=20 > accidentally install on the system of a 2.4 kernel user. hopefully soon t= his=20 > will mean we can unmask the newer glibc ebuilds on x86, which have a dep = on=20 > the 2.6 headers when using nptl (instead of using /usr/src/linux, which i= s=20 > problematic at best and quite often broken at worst). >=20 > another note re: NPTL is that nptl no longer has a version number of it's= own=20 > as of 2004-06-29. i'm guessing this means that ulrich drepper considers n= ptl=20 > to be fairly stable, but i dont think i'll be so quick to put words in hi= s=20 > mouth. when i'm sure that everything's good and calm with the linux26-hea= ders=20 > change i'll poke at making a new snapshot to see if it passes "make check= "=20 > yet. :) Following the announcement that the linux26 headers were now ~x86, I=20 decided to try them, along with the migration to nptl. After a (longish=20 ;-) ) emerge -e system, everything seems to work fine (I just had some=20 trouble starting X, but emerging nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel solved=20 it). I know this is just a WFM message, but it might encourage others to try=20 it. Alan Schmitt --=20 The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. =2EO. =2E.O OOO --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA8nitNIAqM4hFUWgRAnpdAKCCU8pkFr3jVOdN57qg+jEc+s6PEgCfXEOy V086GMgZIrN8oNlfbIII184= =fTxI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--