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

[Duncan]

"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may be slightly outdated, but here, there's a version jump from 2.6.16 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.

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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