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From: Ghaith Hachem <blacksadness@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:18:26
Message-Id: 4bf052bf0603080911t29593356jc93f59805f283400@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources by jerry
1 http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
2 this page shows that the 2.6.15-r1 is availiable for x86 and amd64
3
4 gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1
5 ~alpha amd64 arm ppc ppc64 ~sparc x86
6
7 check if the 2.6 kernel is masked.. maybe sync again
8 though it's weird that all the other versions are masked .. why is
9 that? even the 2.6.14
10 On 3/8/06, jerry <jturba@×××××××.com> wrote:
11 > I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge -s gentoo- sources
12 > I get:
13 >
14 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
15 > Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1
16 > Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2
17 > Size of downloaded files: 31,219 kB
18 > Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/
19 > Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the
20 > 2.4 kernel tree
21 > License: GPL-2
22 >
23 > sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
24 > Latest version available: 2.6.15.1
25 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
26 > Size of downloaded files: 38,905 kB
27 > Homepage: http://www.kernel.org
28 > Description: Full sources for the Linux kernel
29 > License: GPL-2
30 >
31 > Do I have to switch to vanilla-sources now to get the latest kernel?
32 > Won't I lose some newer features if I use 2.4.31-r1?
33 >
34 > If I understand the above output correctly I have already installed the
35 > gentoo-sources kernel, but now they have moved back to the 2.4 series.
36 > Where can I find out what is going on?
37 >
38 > Thanks for any clarification.
39 >
40 > Jerry
41 >
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44 >
45 >
46
47
48 --
49 Cheers,
50 Ghaith
51
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