Bug 56617 – linux-headers-2.6* are now in linux26-headers

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lukasz 2004-07-10 10:06:59 UTC]

Why today (10-07-2004) after emerge sync I haven't got any ebuilds of linux-headers 2.6.x ? Please look at it:
root@woocash linux-headers # dir
ChangeLog                    linux-headers-2.4.21.ebuild     linux-headers-2.4.25.ebuild
files                        linux-headers-2.4.21-r1.ebuild  linux-headers-2.4.26.ebuild
linux-headers-2.0.40.ebuild  linux-headers-2.4.22.ebuild     Manifest
linux-headers-2.2.26.ebuild  linux-headers-2.4.23.ebuild     metadata.xml

There isn't any ebuilds of linux-headers 2.6 :(

When repair it ?

[Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-07-10 10:08:56 UTC]

Lv, what's your metadupe bug for this? I can't find it...

[Comment 2 Søren Chrestensen 2004-07-10 10:24:07 UTC]

They are renamed to sys-kernel/linux26-headers 

[Comment 3 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-07-10 17:59:51 UTC]

i didnt create one, lets make this it ^_^

the 2.6 linux-headers have moved to linux26-headers. there is a linux-headers-2.6.99 ebuild to aid migration, it simply installs the latest keyworded version of linux26-headers.

the reasoning behind this change is that 2.4 kernel users probably dont want 2.6 headers installed, and having them can even break their systems in subtle ways. this has prevented a keyword from being added to the 2.6 header ebuilds, even though 2.6 has been the stable kernel for a bit now. with the ebuilds in linux26-headers, they can be keyworded appropriately without breaking things for 2.4 kernel users.

sorry for any confusion this might have caused, but i assure you it's a good thing (tm) ;)

[Comment 4 Stefan de Konink 2004-07-11 17:44:59 UTC]

there is still a problem in scripts/bootstrap-2.6.sh or in glibc where the 2.4 headers generate a conflict.

[Comment 5 Bruno Redondi 2004-08-11 06:08:48 UTC]

I successfully bootstrap-2.6.sh bootstrapped from stage1-x86-2004.2 preceding the bootstrap with the folowing command:

for file in etc/make.profile/virtuals var/cache/edb/virtuals; do
  sed $file -e "s,/linux-headers,/linux26-headers,g" \
            -e "s,/gentoo-sources,/gentoo-dev-sources,g" > $file.N
  mv $file.N $file
done

[Comment 6 Stephan Karacson 2004-09-19 12:55:38 UTC]

Using linux26-headers instead of linux-headers solves many problems, but they have to become a dependency of gentoo-dev-sources, development-sources .... and all kernel 2.6.x ebuilds, because even the kernel-doc on gentoo.org does not tell you that you need new headers (e.g. for kwifimanager which is not useable with the wrong constellation)

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2004-09-27 23:00:58 UTC]

everything should be transitioned by now (i know all my crazy combinations work)