The latest gentoo alpha kernel is 2.4.21-r4 yet portage wants me to merge headers for 2.4.23. *** sockpuppet root # emerge -upv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.23 [2.4.21] -build 29,133 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.7 [1.8.6.13-r1] -bootstrap -build -livecd -(selinux) -static 104 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r2 [021109-r1] +ipv6 -static 418 kB Total size of downloads: 29,655 kB sockpuppet root # uname -a Linux sockpuppet 2.4.21-alpha-r4 #1 Tue Feb 24 10:25:23 EST 2004 alpha EV67 GNU/Linux sockpuppet root # emerge -s alpha-sources Searching... [ Results for search key : alpha-sources ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-kernel/alpha-sources Latest version available: 2.4.21-r4 Latest version installed: 2.4.21-r4 Size of downloaded files: 29,522 kB Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: Full sources for the Gentoo Linux Alpha kernel License: GPL-2 *** Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -upv world 2. 3. Actual Results: sockpuppet root # emerge -upv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.23 [2.4.21] -build 29,133 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.7 [1.8.6.13-r1] -bootstrap -build -livecd -(selinux) -static 104 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r2 [021109-r1] +ipv6 -static 418 kB Total size of downloads: 29,655 kB Expected Results: sockpuppet root # emerge -upv world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.7 [1.8.6.13-r1] -bootstrap -build -livecd -(selinux) -static 104 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r2 [021109-r1] +ipv6 -static 418 kB Total size of downloads: 29,655 kB Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-alpha-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1,2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.4.21-alpha-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-alpha-r4 alpha EV67 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha ~alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev67 -O3 -pipe " CHOST="alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ev67 -O3 -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/my_gentoo" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alpha artswrappersuid avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd ev6 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Well, we need the newer headers to keep some compilations from breaking, and we don't have a newer kernel available yet. I don't think it breaks anything this way, but hopefully we'll get an updated kernel soon (I'm working on it)
