Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...

[Bo Andresen <bo.andresen@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:53, gentuxx wrote:
> >Do you have eix installed? If not I suggest you install it.
>
> No, I just installed it.  So this is the first time running these
> commands - if that makes any difference.

Well, that's why you had to run update-eix. If you intend to use eix in the 
future then you need to run update-eix everytime you did an emerge --sync. A 
good tip is to use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync. What eix-sync does is 
copy your eix cache, emerge --sync, update-eix and diff-eix. This gives a 
beautiful overview of what the emerge --sync changed and keeps the eix cache 
up to date.

> eix -e gentoo-sources
> * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>      Available versions:  2.4.28-r9 ~2.4.31-r1 2.6.9-r9 2.6.12-r9
> 2.6.12-r10 ~2.6.13 ~2.6.13-r1 ~2.6.13-r2 2.6.13-r3
>      Installed:           2.6.11-r5 2.6.11-r6 2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r9
> 2.6.11-r11 2.6.12-r6 2.6.12-r9 2.6.12-r10 2.6.13-r3
>      Homepage:            http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources
>      Description:         Full sources including the gentoo patchset
> for the 2.6 kernel tree

This is what the same command shows on my system:
# eix -e gentoo-sources
* sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
     Available versions:  2.4.31-r1 ~2.4.32-r2 2.6.12-r9 2.6.12-r10 2.6.13-r5 
2.6.14-r5 ~2.6.14-r6 ~2.6.14-r7 ~2.6.15 2.6.15-r1 ~2.6.15-r2 ~2.6.15-r3 
~2.6.15-r4 ~2.6.15-r5
     Installed:           2.6.15-r1
     Homepage:            http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
     Description:         Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the 
2.6 kernel tree

As you see it is quite different. Also each version of gentoo-sources takes up 
more than 250 MB of space so either your /usr/src takes up more than 2 GB 
with 9 versions of gentoo-sources or you deleted some of the sources but 
forgot to tell portage. Perhaps you would like to run:
# emerge --prune --verbose --ask gentoo-sources

-- 
Bo Andresen
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