[gentoo-user] linux-headers

[gentoo-user] linux-headers

[Michael P. Soulier]

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Hello,

I'm currently running kernel 2.6.25 and I have no issues with it so I don't
really want to upgrade it just yet. I just picked up
sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2, so I thought I'd mask out anything above
2.6.25 for now to keep the headers in sync with the kernel that I'm running.

So I put this in my /etc/portage/package.mask:

>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.26

And now

msoulier@anton:~$ emerge --pretend --update world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     UD] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3 [2.6.27-r2]

So, there's no 2.6.25 version? The last one before 2.6.26 was 2.6.23?

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

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Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Michael P. Soulier
<msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently running kernel 2.6.25 and I have no issues with it so I don't
> really want to upgrade it just yet. I just picked up
> sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2, so I thought I'd mask out anything above
> 2.6.25 for now to keep the headers in sync with the kernel that I'm running.
>
> So I put this in my /etc/portage/package.mask:
>
>>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.26
>
> And now
>
> msoulier@anton:~$ emerge --pretend --update world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     UD] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3 [2.6.27-r2]
>
> So, there's no 2.6.25 version? The last one before 2.6.26 was 2.6.23?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

There were, but no longer in portage. You can get them from here and
put them in a local overlay:

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/linux-headers/?hideattic=0

Regards,
Paul

[gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently running kernel 2.6.25 and I have no issues with it so I don't
> really want to upgrade it just yet. I just picked up
> sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2, so I thought I'd mask out anything above
> 2.6.25 for now to keep the headers in sync with the kernel that I'm running.

You don't need to have them in sync.  The safest is to have a version 
that is either equal or lower to your kernel.  So for you, 2.6.23-r3 is 
perfectly fine.  An exception is if you're using a recent glibc (2.9); 
you'll need to build it against more recent headers.

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

[Michael P. Soulier]

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On 14/01/09 Nikos Chantziaras said:

> You don't need to have them in sync.  The safest is to have a version that 
> is either equal or lower to your kernel.  So for you, 2.6.23-r3 is 
> perfectly fine.  An exception is if you're using a recent glibc (2.9); 
> you'll need to build it against more recent headers.

Hmm. Well, I'm currently using sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1, but presumably that will
change at some point in the future...

Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

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