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Hello, Peter. |
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:23:25PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Monday 22 Aug 2016 11:19:07 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:12:59AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > After this morning's sync, both versions 4.4.6 and 4.6.4 of |
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> > > gentoo-sources have disappeared. Is this just finger trouble in the |
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> > > server chain? I get the same with UK and US sync servers. |
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> > I restrict myself (mostly) to stable releases, and there hasn't been one |
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> > for gentoo-sources for a very long time. |
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> Indeed, I've found the same on my stable systems. |
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> > The latest stable kernel I see (with $ eshowkw gentoo-sources) is 4.1.15- |
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> > r1, although 4.4.6 was stable and available at one stage :-(. |
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> My x86 box is still running 4.4.6 because I don't want to plunge all the way |
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> back to 4.1.45-r1. This box needs to be ~amd64 to get the latest NVMe and |
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> amdgpu drivers. |
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I never did get around to configuring and building 4.4.6. Maybe I |
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should. But my box is now pushing 7 years old and seems built like a |
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tank (albeit one that needed a new power supply after just over a year). |
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I'm hoping that when the time comes, I'll still be able to buy a |
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motherboard that will allow Gentoo to be installed on it. I can't see |
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myself doing that any time soon. The only real reason to get a more |
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powerful machine would be to be able to build libreoffice in a sensible |
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amount of time. If that were a priority, I could just upgrade to 16 GB |
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RAM and build LO in a ramdisk. |
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> -- |
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> Rgds |
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> Peter |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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