Simon Stelling wrote: >William Tetrault wrote: > > >>I've been checking the online package database for a long time now; click on >>categories, then sys-kernel. "gentoo-sources" for AMD64 are all either >>marked stable or testing, but only within the category of "hard-masked". >>I've not tried to upgrade my kernel recently, but only been observing the >>changes in kernel activity within the "gentoo-sources" category. I've been >>puzzled by the apparent lack of activity as far as updating kernels to an >>unmasked status. >> >> > >That's because packages.gentoo.org is a x86 and uses a x86 profile, >where these versions are package.masked. In the amd64 profile, they are >unmasked, so you can simply `emerge gentoo-sources`. > > Do you by any chance know why this is? Especially because its only the 2.6 and 2.4 have been "merged" to one name and the "problem" only exists with 2.6.x kernels. Just seems a bit too much to be coincidence :)
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