Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

[Peng <mnordhoff@gmail.com>]

On 7/8/05, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> 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

Could it be possible to mask >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.5 to block
all 2.6 kernels but no 2.4s?

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