From: 	Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
Reply-To: 	Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: 	toolchain@gentoo.org
Subject: 	NPTL and linux-headers
Date: 	Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:30:38 +0200	
Hi

Just wanted to check if anything specific was decided on how to handle
the NPTL needing masked linux-headers.

I guess we have two choices (IMHO, ideas will be appreciated):

1)  Go full 2.6.  Unfortunately I do not know if we are fully able to
    do this, and also the user that still want to run 2.4 (as well as
    servers, etc) might be a problem.

    If I am correct, it should be Ok to build userland against 2.6
    (if not NPTL), and run a 2.4 kernel, but I do not have the time
    to test this.

2)  ~ keyword all the linux-headers-2.6.*, but put a global mask in
    package.mask, then the user can package.unmask the version he likes.

AFAIK 2) should be feasible, and will at least make things much smoother
for rsync/snapshot users.

Also, from a bug or two that I saw, it seemed like 2.6.4 headers could
be an issue with recent glibc snapshots - have anybody tried to build
2.3.4.* with 2.6.4 headers?  Why I ask, is because I assumed 2.6.5
should be minimum, but do not want to exclude users like one of those
of bug #54589 ...


Thanks,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa