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* Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers-2.6* now linux26-headers
  @ 2004-07-12  4:21 99% ` Alvin Thompson
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From: Alvin Thompson @ 2004-07-12  4:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: lv; +Cc: gentoo-dev

Travis Tilley wrote:

>just a heads up - i've moved all the 2.6 header packages to 
>sys-kernel/linux26-headers so that they can be keyworded without having them 
>accidentally install on the system of a 2.4 kernel user. hopefully soon this 
>will mean we can unmask the newer glibc ebuilds on x86, which have a dep on 
>the 2.6 headers when using nptl (instead of using /usr/src/linux, which is 
>problematic at best and quite often broken at worst).
>
>another note re: NPTL is that nptl no longer has a version number of it's own 
>as of 2004-06-29. i'm guessing this means that ulrich drepper considers nptl 
>to be fairly stable, but i dont think i'll be so quick to put words in his 
>mouth. when i'm sure that everything's good and calm with the linux26-headers 
>change i'll poke at making a new snapshot to see if it passes "make check" 
>yet. :)
>
>  
>
all i know is compiling lvm2 chokes on the new headers...  :(

-alvin


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