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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world update wants to downgrade genoo-sources
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 07:38:52
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMW8SX05J6HOULtF8URra8qGq6827D2Q=nEQtkRcw7ri-g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] world update wants to downgrade genoo-sources by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 11/10/2014 09:11, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
3 >> A recent world update wanted to install a lower version of
4 >> gentoo-source as a new slot.
5 >> [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.14:3.14.14
6 >> [3.14.16:3.14.16] USE="-build -deblob -experimental -symlink" 0 kB
7 >>
8 >> I can't say I've had that happen before.
9 >>
10 >> I've noticed that the ebuild for my current version of gentoo-sources
11 >> is not in the portage tree any more. So my guess is that the only
12 >> gentoo-sources ebuild intended for x86 stable is
13 >> gentoo-sources-3.14.14:
14 >> grep ' x86' `pwd`/gentoo-sources-3.1[4-7]*
15 >> /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-3.14.14.ebuild:KEYWORDS="alpha
16 >> amd64 arm ~arm64 hppa ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86"
17 >
18 >
19 > That's an awfully complicated command to see what's in the tree.
20 >
21 > Do you know about eix?
22 >
23 > "eix gentoo-sources" immediately shows you that the only stable version
24 > is 3.14.14 which is why portage is merging it. The fact that it's a new
25 > slot lower5 than something you had - that is incidental
26 >
27 >
28 > --
29 > Alan McKinnon
30 > alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
31 >
32 >
33
34 Thanks for the reply.
35
36 I'll wait for the stable gentoo-sources that are a higher version than
37 what I have at the moment to become available in the portage tree.

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Re: [gentoo-user] world update wants to downgrade genoo-sources Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>