[gentoo-user] os-headers differ from kernel version

[gentoo-user] os-headers differ from kernel version

[gentuxx]

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This is just a difference that I noticed while running the 'emerge
- --info' command.  My kernel is 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, but emerge --info
reports the os-headers as 2.6.11-r2.  I was able to trace the
os-headers info back to the sys-kernel/linux-headers package, which it
seems the most recent is 2.6.11-r2.  Why the difference?  Does it matter?

- --
gentux
echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'

gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40  9795 2D81 924A
6996 0993
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Re: [gentoo-user] os-headers differ from kernel version

[Eduard Vaykher]

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On 10/5/05, gentuxx <gentuxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> This is just a difference that I noticed while running the 'emerge
> - --info' command. My kernel is 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, but emerge --info
> reports the os-headers as 2.6.11-r2. I was able to trace the
> os-headers info back to the sys-kernel/linux-headers package, which it
> seems the most recent is 2.6.11-r2. Why the difference? Does it matter?
>
> - --
> gentux
> echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
>
> gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A
> 6996 0993
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> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFDRGeqLYGSSmmWCZMRAqmDAKDokvhbBhIXqzfpVpPz85qPmu1tbQCcClmz
> MnUkfkB6ZPNz1s5tQYpkU+k=
> =QXok
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
The os-headers package is just a set of headers in /usr/include/linux/ that
glibc compiles against. This doesn't have to coincide with the kernel
version you're currently running, and is updated much less frequently than
the kernel simply because there is no reason to do so.
Note that if you update your os-headers package, you should recompile glibc
to take advantage of the update.

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Re: [gentoo-user] os-headers differ from kernel version

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:54:19 -0700 gentuxx <gentuxx@gmail.com> wrote:
| This is just a difference that I noticed while running the 'emerge
| - --info' command.  My kernel is 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, but emerge --info
| reports the os-headers as 2.6.11-r2.  I was able to trace the
| os-headers info back to the sys-kernel/linux-headers package, which it
| seems the most recent is 2.6.11-r2.  Why the difference?  Does it
| matter?

Your os-headers should be of the same or an earlier version than your
kernel.

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