When I try to emerge iptables under a UML kernel, it wants to do a check_KV function in the ebuild. However because the UML kernel does not have the source for the kernel, it does not have version.h in order to check the version via check_KV. A better solution for UML kernels would be to check /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease. I can get around this just by commenting out the check_KV function in the ebuild. This is under the iptables-1.2.9.ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge iptables 2. 3. Actual Results: * * Could not determine your kernel version. * Make sure that you have /usr/src/linux symlink. * And that said kernel has been configured. * You can also simply run the following command * in the kernel referenced by /usr/src/linux: * make include/linux/version.h * !!! ERROR: net-firewall/iptables-1.2.9 failed. !!! Function check_KV, Line 256, Exitcode 0 !!! (no error message) Expected Results: Compile and install the software. This is a UML kernel version 2.6.
what's UML ?
UML is User Mode Linux. It allows a person to run many Linux Kernel instances on one machine, mostly for complete virtual hosting with full root access on colocated machines. For a lot more information see: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/.
Not a kernel bug; this is an issue with the actual ebuild. Reassigning back to bug-wranglers. Thanks.
I've added a possible fix to 1.2.9-r1. Please test it and send me a mail if it works or doesn't work. Thanks!
