Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

[james]

On 6/21/20 6:31 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: james <garftd@×××××××.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 21:36
>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo
>>
>> On 6/17/20 12:52 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for
>>> some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution?
>>>
>>> I see that currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> raffaele
>>>
>>
>> I use a 3.18.40 kernel, currently, on one of my AMD systems. It has
>> thousands of source build packages, not only from portage but many others.
>>
>
> What about the rest of the system, in particular GCC and the C libraries? Do you manage to build the 3.x kernel with up to date system or do you need to ''freeze'' some packages?
>
> Thanks,
>
> raffaele
>


Sorry I missed this.

YES every thing else is up to date; sometimes I have to 'hack' at 
updates a few days, but most is current. Most of the old codes, are 
one's where I put the code and the ebuild together, for consistency.

Ask me anything and I'll reply with the version number. In fact, many of 
the codes are ~ so they are the latest versions. The one caveat: 
python-2.7 is a mess and I have some codes using python 3.8 and are 
asking for 3.9....

dev-lang/python
      Available versions:
      (2.7)  2.7.17-r2 2.7.18
      (3.6)  3.6.10-r1(3.6/3.6m)^t 3.6.10-r2(3.6/3.6m)^t
      (3.7)  3.7.7-r1(3.7/3.7m)^t 3.7.7-r2(3.7/3.7m)^t ~3.7.8(3.7/3.7m)^t
      (3.8)  3.8.2-r1^t 3.8.2-r2^t ~3.8.3^t
      (3.9)  ~3.9.0_alpha6^t ~3.9.0_beta1^t ~3.9.0_beta2^t ~3.9.0_beta3^t



Sorry for the delayed response.

hth,
James