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On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, at 5:31 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: james <garftd@×××××××.net> |
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> > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 21:36 |
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> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo |
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> > On 6/17/20 12:52 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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> > > Hello, |
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> > > I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for |
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> > > some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? |
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> > > |
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> > > I see that currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. |
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> > > Thanks, |
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> > > |
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> > > raffaele |
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> > I use a 3.18.40 kernel, currently, on one of my AMD systems. It has |
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> > thousands of source build packages, not only from portage but many others. |
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> What about the rest of the system, in particular GCC and the C |
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> libraries? Do you manage to build the 3.x kernel with up to date system |
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> or do you need to ''freeze'' some packages? |
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If you don't care about age of the userland most tools are actually very backwards |
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compatible and should work on a 3.x kernel. You will need to try it, but I expect |
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the modern @system set of packages would work just fine. |
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If you do need an old userland what I might try to do is grab an old Debian/Ubuntu |
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CD. You could then use Portage Prefix to build the older tools you need with a |
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more contemporary userland. Again, the bigger issue will be old releases falling out |
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of tree. |
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