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

[jerry <jturba@nethere.com>]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:

>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 the quick reply. I did another emerge --sync and

root@backup:/home/jerry  # emerge -s gentoo-sources
Searching...
[ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  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


While waiting for emerge --sync to finish I searched some forums for 
some ideas.

I have not upgraded from gcc-3.3.6 to 3.4.5. Could this cause the problem?

Jerry

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