From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXNV2-0000rp-5u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:47:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8HKcn4G004196; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:38:49 GMT Received: from smtp.freemail.gr (smtp.freemail.gr [81.171.104.132]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8HKcmTT004179 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:38:48 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.2] (adsl19-95.ath.forthnet.gr [77.49.210.95]) by smtp.freemail.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB4A33819D for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:38:47 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <46EEE5CE.7050800@freemail.gr> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:38:38 +0300 From: Aggelos User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070806) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] emerging of silo fails References: <46EE17F1.9080503@freemail.gr> <46EE6CBF.9060202@gentoo.org> <46EEAF5D.1020709@freemail.gr> <46EED1BB.2000704@tekconxus.com> In-Reply-To: <46EED1BB.2000704@tekconxus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f7437e58-9647-4afa-9c39-5360f94c7da1 X-Archives-Hash: 5f2cb473dd472576427e89ccaa4721ae on 09/17/2007 10:12 PM Dereck Martin wrote the following: > I have been running gentoo on a sparc64 since 2004.0 or 2005.0 release. > I know it isn't sparc32, but unless you have some dire need to run a > 2.4 kernel I would suggest running a 2.6 kernel. Please see my reply to Brant Williams' post. Beside that its > getting increasingly difficult to install gentoo under a 2.4 profile. > > I think we all sometimes forget gentoo is a progressive linux and is > always changing. Because of this it is only backward compatible to a > short period of time in the past, like a year. Unlike the other > distributions (red hat/SuSe, etc) where you can install older versions > this distribution sorta requires you to stay somewhat current with the > times. =) I'm experiencing it first hand ;) > > Not saying it is impossible. For instance I run a few machines in 2.4 > profile because I use them for an OpenMosix cluster. That has been > removed from portage for months now, but I can still install it because > I copied the 2006.0 profile and all the required files to a portage > overlay directory so I could still use it even when gentoo stopped > supporting it. You may have to do this same technique in order to use > your 2.4 kernel and stuff, Good idea. ;) How should I proceed? I guess it must me quite simple but, I would appreciate your help. Aggelos. -- gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org mailing list