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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:06:28 -0400
From: "Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've always been curious about something in emerge --info's output:
>
> $ emerge --info
> Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2,
> glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
> =================================================================
> System uname:
> Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
> Timestamp of tree: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:31:02 +0000
>
> Why does it show the glibc-2.8 on the second line but glibc2.2.5 on the fifth?

Uname returns only the kernel version string. Why glibc is in there is
beyond me.
However, I'm still using 2.6.26, so it might be a 2.6.27 issue.


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