On Tuesday 03 May 2005 03:04 am, 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`. > Well, I reckon my question's been answered. It's a confusing situation for anyone who didn't happen to have the above-mentioned info at hand [ =8^) ].
Thanks, Blubb! > Greetings, > > blubb -- [email protected] mailing list
