Ian Hastie posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:53:36 +0100:
> Of course if you still prefer to use portage then install > sys-kernel/vanilla-sources. That will give you the latest kernel available > without any patches. Aye, but I prefer to manage my kernel independently. =8^) Thus, because some packages require a kernel package of some sort or another, I just have to tell portage that I manage it independently, and that's what package.provided does. Unfortunately, package.provided used to work without a version, while now it expects one, and the error it spits out if the package string is there but without the version isn't very helpful as to what exactly is "invalid" about it. Thus, I just mentioned it here, to save anyone else the headache of having to figure it out, as I did. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
