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From: Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:22:01
Message-Id: 342e1090603080913m127a5001jd284dfef4df67832@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources by jerry
1 On 3/8/06, jerry <jturba@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge -s gentoo- sources
3 > I get:
4 >
5 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
6 > Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1
7 > Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2
8 > Size of downloaded files: 31,219 kB
9 > Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/
10 > Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the
11 > 2.4 kernel tree
12 > License: GPL-2
13 >
14 > sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
15 > Latest version available: 2.6.15.1
16 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
17 > Size of downloaded files: 38,905 kB
18 > Homepage: http://www.kernel.org
19 > Description: Full sources for the Linux kernel
20 > License: GPL-2
21 >
22 > Do I have to switch to vanilla-sources now to get the latest kernel?
23 > Won't I lose some newer features if I use 2.4.31-r1?
24 >
25 > If I understand the above output correctly I have already installed the
26 > gentoo-sources kernel, but now they have moved back to the 2.4 series.
27 > Where can I find out what is going on?
28 >
29
30 Katana katana # emerge -s gentoo-sources
31 Searching...
32 [ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
33 [ Applications found : 1 ]
34
35 * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
36 Latest version available: 2.6.15-r1
37 Latest version installed: 2.6.15-r1
38 Size of downloaded files: 39,086 kB
39 Homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
40 Description: Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the
41 2.6 kernel tree
42 License: GPL-2
43
44 Something wrong with your search... Maybe a wrong sync? Try sync'ng again.
45
46 > Thanks for any clarification.
47 >
48 > Jerry
49 >
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53 >
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