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From: Andrei Slavoiu <ansla80@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:42:41
Message-Id: 20060309182645.49734.qmail@web31611.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources by jerry
1 --- jerry <jturba@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge
3 > -s gentoo- sources
4 > I get:
5 >
6 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
7 > Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1
8 > Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2
9 > Size of downloaded files: 31,219 kB
10 > Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/
11 > http://www.gentoo.org/
12 > Description: Full sources including the Gentoo
13 > patchset for the
14 > 2.4 kernel tree
15 > License: GPL-2
16 >
17 > sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
18 > Latest version available: 2.6.15.1
19 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
20 > Size of downloaded files: 38,905 kB
21 > Homepage: http://www.kernel.org
22 > Description: Full sources for the Linux kernel
23 > License: GPL-2
24 >
25 > Do I have to switch to vanilla-sources now to get
26 > the latest kernel?
27 > Won't I lose some newer features if I use 2.4.31-r1?
28 >
29 > If I understand the above output correctly I have
30 > already installed the
31 > gentoo-sources kernel, but now they have moved back
32 > to the 2.4 series.
33 > Where can I find out what is going on?
34 >
35 > Thanks for any clarification.
36 It looks like you are using a very old profile. Make
37 sure /etc/make.profile points to a recent profile (for
38 the x86 architecture that would be
39 /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0)
40 See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
41
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