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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:03:22
Message-Id: 20060310005836.GA24055@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources by jerry
1 On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked:
2 > Andrei Slavoiu wrote:
3 >
4 > >It looks like you are using a very old profile. Make
5 > >sure /etc/make.profile points to a recent profile (for
6 > >the x86 architecture that would be
7 > >/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0)
8 > >See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
9 > >
10 > >
11 > >
12 > You are right and I am using an old profile:
13 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Aug 30 2005 make.profile ->
14 > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0
15 >
16
17 Hum, I have the same profile, and don't have your problem.
18
19 [07:47 PM]wwong ~ $ ls -ld /etc/make.profile
20 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Apr 2 2005 /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0
21 [07:47 PM]wwong ~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources
22 [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ]
23 * installed packages
24 * Portage tree (/home/portage)
25 [-P-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (2.4.31-r1)
26 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2 (2.4.32-r2)
27 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (2.6.14-r7)
28 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15 (2.6.15)
29 [-P-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 (2.6.15-r1)
30 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r2 (2.6.15-r2)
31 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r3 (2.6.15-r3)
32 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r4 (2.6.15-r4)
33 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r5 (2.6.15-r5)
34 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r6 (2.6.15-r6)
35 [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 (2.6.15-r7)
36
37 And besides, if the profile is blocking the packages, wouldn't the
38 source still appear in equery but hard masked [M-]?
39
40 It seems to me that portage is not picking up the changes made to your
41 tree. What happens if you run emerge --metadata?
42
43 W
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