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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why sources 3.2.21 in emerge -vuDp world
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:48:58
Message-Id: 87ehoql10d.fsf@einstein.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why sources 3.2.21 in emerge -vuDp world by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:
2
3 > Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit
4 >
5 > Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world
6 >
7 > Lists gentoo-sources in output like this:
8 >
9 > ,----
10 > | [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE="-build
11 > | -deblob -symlink" 452 kB
12 > `----
13 >
14 > Even when adding -t (tree) to the cmdline it still does not indicate
15 > what is pulling that in. It is shown unindented and same as above.
16 >
17 > That output indicates the only kernel installed is 3.3.4 but just to
18 > check for sure:
19 >
20 > eix -Ic sources:
21 > ,----
22 > | root # eix -Ic sources
23 > | [D] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (3.3.4(3.3.4)@04/29/12 ->
24 > | 3.0.17-r2(3.0.17-r2)^bs (~)3.0.33(3.0.33)^bs (~)3.0.35(3.0.35)^bs
25 > | (~)3.0.36(3.0.36)^bs 3.1.10-r1(3.1.10-r1)^bs 3.2.1-r2(3.2.1-r2)^bs
26 > | 3.2.12(3.2.12)^bs (~)3.2.14(3.2.14)^bs (~)3.2.16(3.2.16)^bs
27 > | (~)3.2.21(3.2.21)^bs): Full sources including the Gentoo patchset
28 > | for the 3.4 kernel tree
29 > `----
30 >
31 > I guess you can't really see it in that output without me adding some
32 > fancy escaping and ansi sequences, but 3.3.4 is highlighted indicating
33 > it is the only one installed.
34 >
35 > And I have this in /etc/portage/package.mask
36 >
37 >>=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.3.5
38 >
39 > So why is version 3.2.21 being installed?
40 >
41 > If something besides an earlier kernel being installed was the cause
42 > it should show up by using -t right?
43
44 It is because 3.2.21 is the latest gentoo-sources <3.3.5 in the
45 tree. 3.3.4 is no longer in the tree, so portage is downgrading to the
46 latest non-masked version in the tree.