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John Dangler wrote: |
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> I just finished the base install of the 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6). When I |
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> run emerge -sync, and then emerge -uDvp system, I get a short list updates |
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> that portage wants to emerge, but there aren't any kernel updates. However, |
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> if I run emerge -uDvp world, there is a new version of the gentoo-sources |
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> (2.6.12-r9). Why wouldn't kernel updates be included in a system emerge? |
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The packages in your system come from |
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/etc/make.profile/packages |
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(Note: do *not* edit this file) |
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The packages considered for world are the ones from system plus the ones |
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in /var/lib/portage/world |
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The world file is where portage records the packages you emerged, e.g. |
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when you typed emerge gentoo-sources it recorded it there. |
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I suppose the reason the kernel is not in the system file is that this |
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file is a kind of 'factory-defaults', which you shouldn't be normally |
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changing. But there is more than just one kernel source tarball avilable |
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in portage, e.g. gentoo-sources, vanilla-sources and some more. Putting |
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this in the system file would unnecessarily constrain your choice as to |
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which kernel to run. |
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Marco |
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