From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9v4i-000815-5o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:10:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1H29OpA004754; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:09:24 GMT Received: from imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1H24t4I023272 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:04:56 GMT Received: from ibm68aec.bellsouth.net ([65.12.196.191]) by imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20060217020453.QADO3579.imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm68aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:04:53 -0500 Received: from mrk.schroder ([65.12.196.191]) by ibm68aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20060217020453.PWYH2532.ibm68aec.bellsouth.net@mrk.schroder> for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:04:53 -0500 From: Ernie Schroder To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating... Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:05:04 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060216200718.70b76ec1@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <43F4DFEB.7020906@gmail.com> <20060217095931.D43F.NICK@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060217095931.D43F.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602162105.04151.schroder@ntplx.net> X-Archives-Salt: 672d0ff3-9faa-461f-b87e-2e3cecdb6017 X-Archives-Hash: 574ccace1dd83f29c831b32713746350 On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:23, a tiny voice compelled Nick Rout to write: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0800 > > gentuxx wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > > >> > > >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and > > >>>`emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants to rebuild my 2.6.13-r3 > > >> > > >>Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? > > >>I mean, "u" for "update"? > > > > > >It doesn't matter, because kernels arer slotted. > > > > > >Have you synced? It doesn't matter if the package is stable in Gentoo's > > >portage tree if you sill have the old ebuild. > > > > Yup. Did it today just to check before sending the first post. > > (Mentioned this in the first post.) > > I have a machine on which portage sometimes crashes near the end of emerge > --sync. during the metadata part. This leaves portage in the position that > it has all the ebuild files on the disk, but it's own database doesn't seem > to know about it. > > Try emerge --metadata which will fix it if that is the problem. > > Anyway, to check when you last synced: > > genlop -r|tail > > (if you don't have genlop, it is in the package genlop (surprise?) > > the nitty gritties way to see what ebuilds are on your hard drive: > > ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/*.ebuild > -- > Nick Rout Just for the heck of it, do: # cat /etc/portage/package* | grep gentoo-sources Does that return anything? how about: cat /etc/make.conf | grep gentoo-sources -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list