Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-09 Thread White, Phil
On 8 March 2017 at 11:29, Stroller wrote: > > Could you `grep -i gcc /var/lib/portage/world*` please? > > A copy of the whole world file(s) would be great, in fact, ideally as > plain text attachments. > Hi Stroller, Thanks, (and apologies for the delay). World

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
On 7 March 2017 at 19:38, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Please don't top post, it is disliked on this list. > Sorry - a consequence of moving away from a proper mail client, and on to a web-based thing. > If you copied over /var/db/pkg you have a rather confused and messed up >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
? Bite the bullet, emerge gcc, and then do a depclean - or can I convince portage that gcc 4.9.4 is really here? Thanks, Phil On 7 March 2017 at 15:38, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:07:32 +0000, White, Phil wrote: > > > I have a new install of

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
Sorry Alan, that results in no extra information from emerge. Still only gcc listed for installation - and nothing else. -- Phil On 7 March 2017 at 15:08, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/03/2017 17:07, White, Phil wrote: > > Hi, > > > >

[gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
Hi, I'm sorry. This is probably a really simple question. I have a new install of Gentoo. emerge -uDpv --newuse @system results in a new slot for gcc, *downgrading* the current version (from 5.4.0 to 4.9.4) No other package is selected for merging. Why??? What command line can I give to show why

Re: [gentoo-user] Rear & Genkernel

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
described previously. So firstly I need to know whether Genkernel is incorrectly naming the kernel, or whether Rear is looking for the wrong name. Cheers, Phil On 6 March 2017 at 22:25, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/03/2017 23:55, White, Phil wrote: > > Hi, >

[gentoo-user] Rear & Genkernel

2017-03-06 Thread White, Phil
Hi, I'm not sure if this needs submitting as a bug, or if I just need a little help in configuring... I have set up a new install of Gentoo. I use genkernel to create my kernel and initrd. The resulting /boot directory gives: kernel-genkernel-x86-4.9.6-gentoo-r1 My chost is i686-pc-linux-gnu.