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

[David Fellows]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:15 -0400 
"John P. Burkett" wrote -
> Drake Donahue wrote:
> > Burkett asked:
> >
> > Should I back up any particular files before doing "emerge
> > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"? You will simply be restoring the
> > bits that depclean removed.
> >
> > No files should need to backed up.
>
> Thank 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"

That is true. 2.6.22 has been removed from the portage tree. Your choices are:
1) to find some one who still has the 2.6.22-r2 ebuild and the corrresponding 
   sources and patches and create an overlay from them, then use that to 
   emerge from.

2) find someone who still has the top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2 who will 
   send it to you. And hope that that is all you are missing.

3) Upgrade to a newer kernel. Presumably the latest stable that is compatible 
   with your desired driver version.

Realistically 3 is your only reasonable option.  The downside is you will have
to do a kernel configuration that is consistent with your existing 
configuration.

You will want to read the kernel upgrade guide first.
  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml

Remember that emerging a kernel source only installs the source files. 
Compiling the kernel is another step.  You may already have a suitable kernel
source emerged. eselect kernel list will show which are emerged as will
  ls -l /usr/src

>
> I also tried
> emerge -s gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2-osmp
> and a few other variations without finding any ebuilds.

The osmp is a local identifying tag specified by the person that built 
your kernel. The smp probably means symetric multiprocessor. No idea 
what the o stands for.

>
> Ideas about how to emerge the sources would be very welcome.
>


Dave F