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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources reverted to 2.6.39-r8 :(
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:28:28
Message-Id: 20110921142627.17348bc1@rohan.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources reverted to 2.6.39-r8 :( by Pandu Poluan
1 On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:15:02 +0700
2 Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
3
4 > Hmm, just ran eix-sync followed by emerge -pvuD @world...
5 >
6 > And I was unpleasantly surprised when I see
7 > sys-kernel/hardened-sources going back from the currently installed
8 > (and booting) 2.6.39-r13 to -r8
9 >
10 > Changelog does not described why -r13 is pulled.
11
12 Actually it does :-)
13
14 13 Sep 2011; Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o>
15 -hardened-sources-2.6.32-r64.ebuild,
16 -hardened-sources-2.6.39-r12.ebuild,
17 -hardened-sources-2.6.39-r13.ebuild, -hardened-sources-3.0.3.ebuild:
18 Removed deprecated versions
19
20
21 Maybe -r13 just never made it to stable at all?
22
23 If it's working fine for you and you are happy with -r13, then leave it
24 alone. It will continue to boot until you decide to upgrade to
25 something else. Maybe you should list that version explicitly in world
26 just in case it accidentally goes away with a hasty --depclean
27
28
29 > So, what should I do now? Should I recompile the kernel to 2.6.39-r8?
30 > Or just use existing kernel? Or just forget 2.6.x completely and go
31 > straight to 3.0.4-r2 ?
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35 --
36 Alan McKinnnon
37 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-sources reverted to 2.6.39-r8 :( Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>