[gentoo-user] updating linux-headers

[gentoo-user] updating linux-headers

[Jorge Almeida]

I just "emerge --sync"ed and issued  "emerge -pNDu world".
Portage wants to upgrade linux-headers from 2.6.11-r2 to 2.6.11-r5 (and
nothing else).
I know I can live with the current headers, but then the same message
would keep popping out. As far as I understand, if I upgrade
linux-headers I must also recompile glibc. And then, anything else?
It leaves an unconfortable feeling that "emerge -pNDu world" may have
nothing to say and still the system may not be in a sane state. 
Would revdep-rebuild take care of it?
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Re: [gentoo-user] updating linux-headers

[Richard Fish]

On 9/5/06, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> I just "emerge --sync"ed and issued  "emerge -pNDu world".
> Portage wants to upgrade linux-headers from 2.6.11-r2 to 2.6.11-r5 (and
> nothing else).
> I know I can live with the current headers, but then the same message
> would keep popping out. As far as I understand, if I upgrade
> linux-headers I must also recompile glibc. And then, anything else?

Nope.  (Almost) everything else is dynamically linked to glibc, so
they will automatically use whatever changes appear in glibc as a
result.  Those few statically linked packages are probably not worth
worrying about.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] updating linux-headers

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Richard Fish wrote:

> > would keep popping out. As far as I understand, if I upgrade
> > linux-headers I must also recompile glibc. And then, anything else?
> 
> Nope.  (Almost) everything else is dynamically linked to glibc, so
> they will automatically use whatever changes appear in glibc as a
> result.  Those few statically linked packages are probably not worth
> worrying about.
> 
Great. 
Thanks.

Jorge 
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