Re: [gentoo-dev] About linux-headers, making stages with catalyst

[Daniel Goller <morfic@gentoo.org>]

that is my doing back when gcc3.4 was profile masked, i could even 
boostrap with it at the time
it was only an escape to make gcc3.4 ~x86 w/o anyone pulling it but 
those who chose to switch to

default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34/2.6/


Chris Gianelloni wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:33 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
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>>On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:26:03AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>There is no profile in portage using 2.6 headers as default that I am
>aware of.
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>>(By now, I changed the virtuals in default-linux/x86 and default-linux). That
>>isn't very pretty... but that's what I did. ;)
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>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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