Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 3/8/06, jerry <jturba@nethere.com> wrote:
> I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge -s gentoo- sources
> I get:
>
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>       Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1
>       Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2
>       Size of downloaded files: 31,219 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/
>       Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the
> 2.4 kernel tree
>       License:     GPL-2
>
> sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
>       Latest version available: 2.6.15.1
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 38,905 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.kernel.org
>       Description: Full sources for the Linux kernel
>       License:     GPL-2
>
> Do I have to switch to vanilla-sources now to get the latest kernel?
> Won't I lose some newer features if I use 2.4.31-r1?
>
> If I understand the above output correctly I have already installed the
> gentoo-sources kernel, but now they have moved back to the 2.4 series.
> Where can I find out what is going on?
>

Katana katana # emerge -s gentoo-sources
Searching...
[ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
      Latest version available: 2.6.15-r1
      Latest version installed: 2.6.15-r1
      Size of downloaded files: 39,086 kB
      Homepage:    http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
      Description: Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the
2.6 kernel tree
      License:     GPL-2

Something wrong with your search... Maybe a wrong sync? Try sync'ng again.

> Thanks for any clarification.
>
> Jerry
>
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