Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge -eav system failed with ati-drivers

[John P. Burkett]

Duncan wrote:
> "John P. Burkett" <burkett@×××.edu> posted 4A3EAC43.30004@×××.edu,
> excerpted below, on  Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:15 -0400:
>
>> hank you David.  Doing
>> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2 produced the following
>> response
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy
>> "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"
>>
>> I also tried
>> emerge -s gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2-osmp and a few other variations
>> without finding any ebuilds.
>>
>> Ideas about how to emerge the sources would be very welcome.
>
> Try epkginfo gentoo-sources
>
> That should give you a list of all available versions and their keyword
> status, among other info (as long as you have gentoolkit installed, tho
> older gentoolkits might not include it as I think it's a newer
> addition).  It looks like there's no longer a gentoo-sources-2.6.22
> version in the tree.  I haven't synced in a few days so the list I get
> may be slightly outdated, but here, there's a version jump from 2.6.16
> (which was maintained as a long-term stable version for quite some time)
> to 2.6.25, then at least one revision of each kernel from there thru 30,
> the latest.
Thank you, Duncan.  Doing epkginfo gentoo-sources on my machine confirms
your observations.


>
> So it appears you'll need to upgrade to at least 2.6.25 if you stay with
> gentoo-sources, or switch to a different kernel package or grab the
> sources directly from upstream.
>
> Personally, since you're upgrading, I'd suggest the latest stable, 2.6.29-
> r5 it appears, so you won't need to worry about it for awhile.  But of
> course, the farther you upgrade in one jump, the more various config
> options will have changed a bit, leaving you with more questions to try
> to figure out the answer to when you make oldconfig, or genkernel, or
> whatever you use.
>


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