Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

[Matt Harrison]

Simon wrote:
> Hi there,
>   long ago i installed a 2.6.24 kernel in /usr/src manually.  I had
> added the
> line "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24" (without quotes) to the file
> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided.  There is no kernel in
> /var/lib/portage/world...  This may be related to the fact i recently
> moved my
> make.profile to point to 2008 instead of 2007...
>
>   Now, I'm trying to do a simple `emerge -uDN world` and for some
> reason, the
> nvidia-drivers keep trying to pull a gentoo-sources.  Here's the output of
> `emerge -vpt nvidia-drivers`:
> [ebuild     U ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09 [96.43.07] USE="gtk
> -acpi
> -custom-cflags% (-multilib)" 7,067 kB
> [ebuild  N    ]  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r7  USE="-build
> -symlink" 0 kB
>
> The main problem is i really lack diskspace (on my eeepc 4gb) and I can't
> install that kernel (not even install and uninstall it).  Besides, I would
> really like if emerge/portage could leave my kernel alone, completely.
>
> NeddySeagon and Miravlix tried to help on #gentoo, i tried modifying the
> .provided line to "virtual/linux-sources", didn't help.  Tried putting a
> version
> that corresponds to a valid ebuild (2.6.24 doesn't exist in portage) like
> "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24.7" but that didn't help either.
>
> I've been able to hack my way around this problem for now (by masking
> the pkgs
> that were being updated that were pulling the kernel), but that is a
> dirty solution.
>
> I would really want to make portage leave my kernel(s) alone, if anyone
> can help...
>
> Thanks, Simon
>
>

How about specified sys-kernel/gentoo-sources instead of vanilla in 
package.provided. If the nvidia ebuild depends on gentoo-sources and not 
vanilla-sources...then naturally it will pull in gentoo no matter how 
many vanilla kernels you have.

I haven't tested any of that but it seems logical to me and might be 
worth a go :)

HTH

Matt