David Fellows wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:15 -0400 
> "John P. Burkett" wrote -
>> Drake Donahue wrote:
>>> Burkett asked: 
>>>
>>> Should I back up any particular files before doing "emerge
>>> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"? You will simply be restoring the
>>> bits that depclean removed.
>>>
>>> No files should need to backed up.
>> Thank you David.  Doing
>> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2
>> produced the following response
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy
>> "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"
> 
> That is true. 2.6.22 has been removed from the portage tree. Your choices are:
> 1) to find some one who still has the 2.6.22-r2 ebuild and the corrresponding 
>    sources and patches and create an overlay from them, then use that to 
>    emerge from.
> 
> 2) find someone who still has the top level Makefile from 2.6.22-r2 who will 
>    send it to you. And hope that that is all you are missing.
Thank you David.  On an x86 machine running kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 I
found /usr/src/linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2/Makefile. I downloaded that
Makefile to the /usr/src/linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 directory of my amd64
machine running 2.6.22-gentoo-r2.  Doing "eix-sync" and "emerge
ati-drivers" then produced the following response:

 * Found kernel source directory:
 *     /usr/src/linux
 * Could not detect kernel version.
 * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a complete set of Linux
sources.
 *
 * ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *                     ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
 *   ati-drivers-8.552-r2.ebuild, line   70:  Called linux-mod_pkg_setup
 *              linux-mod.eclass, line  578:  Called linux-info_pkg_setup
 *             linux-info.eclass, line  696:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *      get_version || die "Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version"
 *  The die message:
 *   Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack
if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2/temp/die.env'.
 *

>>> Failed to emerge x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2, Log file:

>>>  '/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2/temp/build.log'

 * Messages for package x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2:

 * Could not detect kernel version.
 * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a complete set of Linux
sources.
 *
 * ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *                     ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
 *   ati-drivers-8.552-r2.ebuild, line   70:  Called linux-mod_pkg_setup
 *              linux-mod.eclass, line  578:  Called linux-info_pkg_setup
 *             linux-info.eclass, line  696:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *      get_version || die "Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version"
 *  The die message:
 *   Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

The build log and ebuild environment files are attached.

Doing "ls -l" in my /usr/src/linux directory produces a list including
the following line:
-rw-r--r--  1 john john   50411 Jun 22 09:09 Makefile

I'd be grateful for ideas about how to help emerge detect the kernel
version.

Best regards,
John



> 
> 3) Upgrade to a newer kernel. Presumably the latest stable that is compatible 
>    with your desired driver version.
> 
> Realistically 3 is your only reasonable option.  The downside is you will have
> to do a kernel configuration that is consistent with your existing 
> configuration.
> 
> You will want to read the kernel upgrade guide first.
>   http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
> 
> Remember that emerging a kernel source only installs the source files. 
> Compiling the kernel is another step.  You may already have a suitable kernel
> source emerged. eselect kernel list will show which are emerged as will
>   ls -l /usr/src
> 
>> I also tried
>> emerge -s gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2-osmp
>> and a few other variations without finding any ebuilds.
> 
> The osmp is a local identifying tag specified by the person that built 
> your kernel. The smp probably means symetric multiprocessor. No idea 
> what the o stands for.
> 
>> Ideas about how to emerge the sources would be very welcome.
>>
> 
> 
> Dave F
> 
> 


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