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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: provided kernel
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:40:36
Message-Id: gj6hsl$ihp$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] provided kernel by Simon
1 Simon wrote:
2 > Hi there,
3 > long ago i installed a 2.6.24 kernel in /usr/src manually. I had
4 > added the
5 > line "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24" (without quotes) to the file
6 > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. There is no kernel in
7 > /var/lib/portage/world... This may be related to the fact i recently
8 > moved my
9 > make.profile to point to 2008 instead of 2007...
10
11 Remove that again and try "emerge =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24".
12
13
14 > Now, I'm trying to do a simple `emerge -uDN world` and for some
15 > reason, the
16 > nvidia-drivers keep trying to pull a gentoo-sources. Here's the output of
17 > `emerge -vpt nvidia-drivers`:
18 > [ebuild U ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-96.43.09 [96.43.07] USE="gtk
19 > -acpi
20 > -custom-cflags% (-multilib)" 7,067 kB
21 > [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r7 USE="-build
22 > -symlink" 0 kB
23
24 nvidia-drivers doesn't depend on gentoo-sources, but on
25 virtual/linux-sources. That means you have to emerge either
26 gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources. And I don't think you should be
27 messing with /etc/portage/profile/package.provided that way :P Just
28 emerge vanilla-sources.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: provided kernel Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××××.com>