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From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:31:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR10MB156819DF0E7CA7FBFE793045F7960@VI1PR10MB1568.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f938bc21-7302-256d-92f5-eb6371b439c3@verizon.net>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: james <garftd@verizon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 21:36
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo
> 
> On 6/17/20 12:52 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for
> > some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution?
> >
> > I see that currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > raffaele
> >
> 
> I use a 3.18.40 kernel, currently, on one of my AMD systems. It has
> thousands of source build packages, not only from portage but many others.
> 

What about the rest of the system, in particular GCC and the C libraries? Do you manage to build the 3.x kernel with up to date system or do you need to ''freeze'' some packages?

Thanks,

raffaele


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-21 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-17 16:52 [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo Raffaele BELARDI
2020-06-17 17:36 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-06-17 19:45   ` Michael
2020-06-18 15:45     ` Raffaele BELARDI
2020-06-17 18:44 ` David Haller
2020-06-18  6:16 ` Gerrit Kuehn
2020-06-18 19:35 ` james
2020-06-18 20:02   ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-18 20:47     ` james
2020-06-21 10:31   ` Raffaele BELARDI [this message]
2020-06-30 14:34     ` Sid Spry
2020-07-01  7:32     ` Gerrit Kuehn
2020-07-01  8:35       ` karl
2020-07-02 21:55     ` james
2020-06-30  8:29 ` Andreas K. Huettel

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