Re: [gentoo-user] fresh install fetches old kernel?

[Mark Shields]

Are you using a popular, common portage mirror or a custom or rarely used portage mirror?  It's possible, though not likely, the portage mirror you're using is a very old, rarely updated mirror (read: 6 months, I just recently upgraded my 2.6.11-r6 kernel to the newest, 2.6.13-r3 kernel).  do an emerge --search gentoo-sources.  I assume you're using or attempting to use the gentoo-sources because you make no mention of the kernel variant.  If you indeed to sync with an up-to-date portage mirror, your search results should return something similar to this:

[ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
      Latest version available: 2.6.13-r3
      Latest version installed: 2.6.13-r3
      Size of downloaded files: 37,672 kB
      Homepage:    http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
      Description: Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kerne tree
      License:     GPL-2


Latest version installed, however, will probably be different.  I would also try emerging the sources manually by specifying the version:  emerge -pv =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3  
 And see what happens.  if it gives you an error saying there are no ebuilds to satisfy your request, then you have an out-of-date portage sync.

On 10/10/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

yes,  did #emerge --sync first

--- maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> Doing a fresh install from a min-install CD. When I
> ran emerge --fetchonly --emptytree system, portage
> retrieved the linux-2.6.11 kernel.  This is older
> than
> the kernel, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6,  on the livecd!
>
> What's going on?
>
> -mw
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