Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

[Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>]

Ian K schreef:
> Hi there,
> I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but
> gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked
> gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a
> 2.4  ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). 

As indeed there is:

eix gentoo-sources
* sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
     Available versions:  2.4.28-r9 2.6.9-r9 2.6.10-r6 2.6.11-r8
2.6.11-r11 [M]2.6.12-r3 [M]2.6.12-r4
     Installed:           2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r11
     Homepage:            http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources
     Description:         Full sources including the gentoo patchset for
the 2.6 kernel tree


> How do I get it?

Try this:

emerge -av =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r9


Don't forget to add

>sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9

to /etc/portage/package.mask, or Portage will keep trying to upgrade
you. If there's a 2.4-series upgrade, that will also be blocked, but you
are likely to be keeping an eye open for any such updates, and can
adjust your package.mask accordingly.

> Thanks!!

HTH,
Holly


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