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Thank you, David. |
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David Fellows wrote: |
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> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:15 -0400 |
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> "John P. Burkett" wrote - |
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>> Drake Donahue wrote: |
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>>> Burkett asked: |
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>>> Should I back up any particular files before doing "emerge |
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>>> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"? You will simply be restoring the |
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>>> bits that depclean removed. |
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>>> |
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>>> No files should need to backed up. |
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>> Thank you David. Doing |
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>> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2 |
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>> produced the following response |
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>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy |
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>> "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2" |
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> |
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> That is true. 2.6.22 has been removed from the portage tree. Your choices are: |
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> 1) to find some one who still has the 2.6.22-r2 ebuild and the corrresponding |
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> sources and patches and create an overlay from them, then use that to |
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> emerge from. |
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> 2) find someone who still has the top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2 who will |
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> send it to you. And hope that that is all you are missing. |
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This appears to be the easiest short term solution. In looking for the |
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top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2, do I need to specify that it is to be |
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used on an amd64 machine or should I expect that any such file might |
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work on amd64 architecture? |
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> |
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> 3) Upgrade to a newer kernel. Presumably the latest stable that is compatible |
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> with your desired driver version. |
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> Realistically 3 is your only reasonable option. The downside is you will have |
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> to do a kernel configuration that is consistent with your existing |
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> configuration. |
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> You will want to read the kernel upgrade guide first. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml |
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> Remember that emerging a kernel source only installs the source files. |
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> Compiling the kernel is another step. You may already have a suitable kernel |
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> source emerged. eselect kernel list will show which are emerged as will |
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> ls -l /usr/src |
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>> I also tried |
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>> emerge -s gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2-osmp |
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>> and a few other variations without finding any ebuilds. |
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> |
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> The osmp is a local identifying tag specified by the person that built |
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> your kernel. The smp probably means symetric multiprocessor. No idea |
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> what the o stands for. |
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>> Ideas about how to emerge the sources would be very welcome. |
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> Dave F |
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John P. Burkett |
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Department of Economics |
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University of Rhode Island |
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