Summary: | emerge wants to merge linux-headers newer than installed kernel | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Mike Nerone <mike> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | VERIFIED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2007.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Mike Nerone
2007-07-16 14:33:06 UTC
# emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.9 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.20-hardened-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-hardened-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:20:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv userpriv_fakeroot usersandbox verify-rdepend" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/nerone" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nerone.org/gentoo-portage" USE="aac acl bash-completion branding bzip2 caps cdparanoia cracklib crypt cups dv dvd dvdread fam fastcgi flash foomaticdb ftp gd gs hardened headless imap ithreads jpeg live lzo mailwrapper matroska mcal memlimit midi mmap mmx mmx2 ncurses network nls nntp nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl pic pie ppds python readline real rtc samba sasl slp sse ssl syslog theora threads tiff truetype unicode urandom x86 xml xorg xvid zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS (In reply to comment #0) > Isn't it "bad" to build glibc against a version of the headers package that is > newer than the running kernel? No, not at all. Really? I've always understood that headers newer than the kernel are bad because they can reference APIs that don't yet exist in the running kernel. This has even been mentioned many times on Gentoo lists (and elsewhere), such as at http://osdir.com/ml/linux.gentoo.server/2005-03/msg00097.html . Has this changed, or was this belief always incorrect? May I ask why are you CCing me? It's perfectly safe to use 2.6 headers w/ 2.4 kernels even. Ok, if you say so (and I CC'd you because you had provided the previous response, and if I didn't CC somebody, I don't think anyone would see the bug due to its resolved status). |