[gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

[James]

Thanasis <thanasis <at> asyr.hopto.org> writes:


> No, because as I said in a previous post, the matter is that when a
> newer version 3.10.X is in the tree, and you do an update of the world
> set, the newer kernel source of the 3.10.X series won't appear as an update.
> You'll have to emerge it again "manually" and likewise "manually"
> unmerge the older one.


Manual control/determination of kernels may appear overtly
clumsy, but it is far better to expend a bit of extra time, manually,
than in  panic mode; which is why I think you see a lack
of feature rich granularity in gentoo related to  kernels, imho.


James