Bug 321713 – Handbook: Remove note about "not using ipv6 mirrors"

• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-05-27 18:07:52 UTC]

Hello,
Please see $URL. The note about ipv6 is not correct for the following reasons:

1) USE=ipv6 is enabled by default in the profiles* and thus stage3's

default/linux/make.defaults:USE="berkdb crypt ipv6 ncurses nls pam perl python readline ssl tcpd zlib"

* = But not, uclibc, hardened, or bsd profiles. (Minorities, in my opinion)

2) CONFIG_IPV6=m in the default kernel on the installation cds. http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/releng/trunk/releases/weekly/kconfig/x86/installcd-2.6.31.config?revision=728&view=markup

Thanks.

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2010-05-28 03:40:40 UTC]

ipv6 is not enabled for the following kernels:

alpha
ia64
ppc-ibm (2.6.24)
ppc64

I'll have to do a conditional note for these arches about not setting ipv6.

@arch maintainers: can you investigate whether ipv6 is practical, and if so, it needs to be in your kernel config. I imagine someone on the Releng team may need to make the actual commit -- dunno if there's even anyone on the team still who can do that.

Once the kernel configs are updated to include ipv6, let me know on this bug so I can remove the conditional note.

[Comment 2 nm (RETIRED) 2010-05-28 03:52:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)

Okay, conditional note for alpha, ia64, and ppc64 added. Fixed for all other arches.

Arch teams/Releng, please let me know what's up with ipv6 support for the kernel configs. Thanks.

[Comment 3 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2010-06-13 10:21:31 UTC]

alpha/ia64 have ipv6 in latest autobuild :)

[Comment 4 nm (RETIRED) 2010-06-13 12:03:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> alpha/ia64 have ipv6 in latest autobuild :)

Thanks; fixed in the handbook for Alpha and IA64. Now we just need the PPC64 team to let us know what's goin' on.

[Comment 5 nm (RETIRED) 2010-07-13 00:55:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > alpha/ia64 have ipv6 in latest autobuild :)
> 
> Thanks; fixed in the handbook for Alpha and IA64. Now we just need the PPC64
> team to let us know what's goin' on.

Ping, been a month. Any word on getting IPv6 support in the ppc64 stages?

[Comment 6 nm (RETIRED) 2010-11-14 15:42:12 UTC]

I just looked at releng's SVN, and it looks like ipv6 support for pp64 was added a couple of months ago. Removed the last warning from the handbooks. Thanks, guys!