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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get an old ebuild
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:16:08
Message-Id: 4AA21E43.8030505@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to get an old ebuild by Jim Cunning
1 Jim Cunning wrote:
2 > I am currently running kernel 2.6.25-r7 and have an emerge that fails because
3 > it can't find a Makefile for the kernel. I somehow no longer can run
4 > genkernel, or emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r7. I would rather not
5 > upgrade my kernel at this point--how can I find/emerge this slightly older
6 > kernel?
7 >
8
9 If you have a decent connection, I can email you mine. I have the
10 following versions of gentoo-sources:
11
12 root@smoker / # ls -al /usr/src/
13 total 4
14 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 256 Aug 30 04:15 .
15 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 488 Sep 2 03:56 ..
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 11 2008 .keep
17 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 16 12:13 linux ->
18 /usr/src/linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r9/
19 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1392 Apr 16 17:01 linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r8
20 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1504 Sep 4 14:29 linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r9
21 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 776 Aug 29 15:28 linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4
22 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 776 Sep 4 12:52 linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5
23 root@smoker / #
24
25 I would assume you would want either 2.6.23 or 2.6.25 since they are
26 older with 2.6.25 being the closest to your desires of course.
27
28 Let me know if you want me to email them to you.
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)