On Tuesday 05 December 2006 01:53, David Relson wrote: > Today when I ran "emerge -au world" I was surprised to see > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.17-r2 [2.6.17-r1] > > because I'm presently running a 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 kernel (built from > gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r1 using genkernel). > > When I run "emerge -C linux-headers" it warns me that > > !!! 'sys-kernel/linux-headers' is part of your system profile. > !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
which is correct. > > Common sense tells me that anything 2.6.19 renders all things > obsolete that relate to 2.6.17. Am I right? > No, you totally are wrong. Userland headers (the stuff in /usr/include) and the kernel are two independent entities. Don't mix them up. You need the headers, and it does not matter which kernel version you have. > Also, where is it recorded that linux-headers 2.6.17-r2 is important? > I suspect I ought to delete that info as well. Changelog bugzilla -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
