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From: Khumba <bog@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:02:51
Message-Id: 20140131090238.5f6020e7@mion.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package by Khumba
1 On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:35:22 -0800
2 Khumba <bog@××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:29:21 +0200
5 > Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> wrote:
6 >
7 > > Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest
8 > > 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with
9 > > the latest gentoo-sources?
10 > >
11 > > Currently, that would be version 3.10.28.
12 > > I know I can specify it like so,
13 > > emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.28
14 > >
15 > > but then it would not get "auto-updated" when a newer version of that
16 > > series (for example 3.10.29) becomes available in portage.
17 >
18 > I don't have Gentoo in front of me so I can't verify this now, but I
19 > thought it worked to put the following in your world file:
20 >
21 > <sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.11
22 >
23 > Of course if all 3.10 kernels are removed from the tree then this will
24 > pull in a wrong kernel, but I *think* that's valid world file
25 > syntax...
26
27 Ah right, this will pull in _alpha up to _rc versions of 3.11, but as
28 long as the kernel ebuilds aren't using those versions. Or maybe
29 <sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.11_alpha?
30
31 - Khumba