Re: [gentoo-user] Why sources 3.2.21 in emerge -vuDp world

[Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit
>
> Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world
>
> Lists gentoo-sources in output like this:
>
> ,----
> | [ebuild  NS    ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE="-build
> | -deblob -symlink" 452 kB
> `----
>
> Even when adding -t (tree) to the cmdline it still does not indicate
> what is pulling that in.  It is shown unindented and same as above.
>
> That output indicates the only kernel installed is 3.3.4 but just to
> check for sure:
>
> eix -Ic sources:
> ,----
> | root # eix -Ic sources
> | [D] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (3.3.4(3.3.4)@04/29/12 ->
> | 3.0.17-r2(3.0.17-r2)^bs (~)3.0.33(3.0.33)^bs (~)3.0.35(3.0.35)^bs
> | (~)3.0.36(3.0.36)^bs 3.1.10-r1(3.1.10-r1)^bs 3.2.1-r2(3.2.1-r2)^bs
> | 3.2.12(3.2.12)^bs (~)3.2.14(3.2.14)^bs (~)3.2.16(3.2.16)^bs
> | (~)3.2.21(3.2.21)^bs): Full sources including the Gentoo patchset
> | for the 3.4 kernel tree
> `----
>
> I guess you can't really see it in that output without me adding some
> fancy escaping and ansi sequences, but 3.3.4 is highlighted indicating
> it is the only one installed.
>
> And I have this in /etc/portage/package.mask
>
>>=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.3.5
>
> So why is version 3.2.21 being installed? 
>
> If something besides an earlier kernel being installed was the cause
> it should show up by using -t right?

It is because 3.2.21 is the latest gentoo-sources <3.3.5 in the
tree. 3.3.4 is no longer in the tree, so portage is downgrading to the
latest non-masked version in the tree.