Re: [gentoo-user] os-headers differ from kernel version

[Eduard Vaykher]

On 10/5/05, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1This is just a difference that I noticed while running the 'emerge- --info' command.My kernel is 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, but emerge --inforeports the os-headers as 
2.6.11-r2.I was able to trace theos-headers info back to the sys-kernel/linux-headers package, which itseems the most recent is 2.6.11-r2.Why the difference?Does it matter?- --gentuxecho hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC409795 2D81 924A6996 0993-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)iD8DBQFDRGeqLYGSSmmWCZMRAqmDAKDokvhbBhIXqzfpVpPz85qPmu1tbQCcClmz
MnUkfkB6ZPNz1s5tQYpkU+k==QXok-END PGP SIGNATURE---gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listThe os-headers package is just a set of headers in /usr/include/linux/ that glibc compiles against. This doesn't have to coincide with the kernel version you're currently running, and is updated much less frequently than the kernel simply because there is no reason to do so. 
Note that if you update your os-headers package, you should recompile glibc to take advantage of the update.

Re: [gentoo-user] help

[Eduard Vaykher]

On 10/5/05, Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache.Mytroubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4.The kde taskbar appswouldn't start.I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-metato see if it was related to the kde split, but that didn't help.I got
the idea that the problem was some old kde packages, so I tried unmergingeverything on my system which was kde related, including some old packageswhich are no longer in portage, then I reemerged everything.THis was
a big mistake as afterwards kde was even more broken, and kde apps likek3b now don't even work.I've given up on kde and moved to enlightenment,but it will be really hard to deal without any kde apps.Lots of people have
given me advice, but everything I try just seems to make things worse.Itseems like there is something about old versions of kde that won't go away,which I don't understand at all.It seems like if you reemerge something it
should move to the newest versions.I really could use some help becauseI have no idea what to do next.-Wes--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
KDE should separate its releases by minor version. KDE 3.2 or 3.3 shouldn't interfere with KDE 3.4, which makes me wonder why and older version is blocking things. emerge kde-meta and see what kind of trouble it gives you.