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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world update wants to downgrade genoo-sources
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 07:27:41
Message-Id: 5438DBDD.8000101@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] world update wants to downgrade genoo-sources by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On 11/10/2014 09:11, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > A recent world update wanted to install a lower version of
3 > gentoo-source as a new slot.
4 > [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.14:3.14.14
5 > [3.14.16:3.14.16] USE="-build -deblob -experimental -symlink" 0 kB
6 >
7 > I can't say I've had that happen before.
8 >
9 > I've noticed that the ebuild for my current version of gentoo-sources
10 > is not in the portage tree any more. So my guess is that the only
11 > gentoo-sources ebuild intended for x86 stable is
12 > gentoo-sources-3.14.14:
13 > grep ' x86' `pwd`/gentoo-sources-3.1[4-7]*
14 > /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-3.14.14.ebuild:KEYWORDS="alpha
15 > amd64 arm ~arm64 hppa ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86"
16
17
18 That's an awfully complicated command to see what's in the tree.
19
20 Do you know about eix?
21
22 "eix gentoo-sources" immediately shows you that the only stable version
23 is 3.14.14 which is why portage is merging it. The fact that it's a new
24 slot lower5 than something you had - that is incidental
25
26
27 --
28 Alan McKinnon
29 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] world update wants to downgrade genoo-sources Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] world update wants to downgrade genoo-sources Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>