From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dr4N8-00022X-5h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:43:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j691fw3x003186; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 01:41:58 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j691b8AV002352 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 01:37:09 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so541481wra for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:37:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U4fw5DfYSJFZ5zAMGd/EQ4Vb2nPEfLRBjaYD7To/44NNHEigF92e3SzP0CYciiv7n0M+DKZFtv/8JqaoOzS+AYk7F7+g7ZD5JPABc7OesEf+FB4R1OD+9ZbO1sa2GL27343AU3cjJc4rhy+QBaUGj/AuW8OlkrcMT046a0RHdz0= Received: by 10.54.32.69 with SMTP id f69mr715387wrf; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.92.10 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:37:22 -0400 From: Peng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel In-Reply-To: <42CF267B.2030304@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050709005805.77537.qmail@web52905.mail.yahoo.com> <42CF267B.2030304@planet.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j691b8AV002352 X-Archives-Salt: 5829d8e4-cd6b-4be2-8747-7b8bc1350d1c X-Archives-Hash: 41a5b8890bbc77c7cbe9c6f2ccad749c On 7/8/05, Holly Bostick 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list