On Friday 08 April 2005 12:53 am, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Had this on 3 systems this morning: change the /etc/make.profile link to > point to 2005.0 Note that 2005.0 has a 2.4 subdirectory that locks you > into the 2.4 stuff if make.profile symlinks to it instead of one level > up.
There is /etc/make.profile.2005 which points to 2005.0, as well as a make.profile pointing to 2004.3. I thought that took care of things - but perhaps not. Besides, Daniel Drake's explanation is that Gentoo's site uses a 2.4 profile, not my machine. > > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 22:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > I am running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. As announced, > > > gentoo-dev-sources has disappeared from sys/kernel leaving > > > gentoo-sources. However, the Online Database lists 2.4.28-r8 as the > > > latest stable build. I just ran emerge uDvp world and I am offered > > > "NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r5", which is marked M+ in > > > the database. I do not have any kernel in any /etc/portage files. Is > > > the database not up to date or is something wrong at my end? Any > > > advice appreciated. Thanks. > > > > This is a bug in packages.gentoo.org. Well, strictly not a bug. > > packages.gentoo.org runs on a 2.4 kernel, and therefore uses a 2.4 > > profile. As you might expect, all 2.6 kernels are hardmasked under the > > 2.4 profile. An unfortunate side effect is that this is reflected in the > > content published on the site. > > > > I asked the maintainer if he could do anything to resolve this - i.e. > > change profile or refine the parsing. I didn't recieve a very positive > > answer. > > > > But this does raise other questions, particularly as we can now have > > much finer control over masking now that we have decent cascading > > profiles. If there was a 2.7/2.8 tree out, we'd have another profile > > tree for it, and we'd add masks in the other profiles accordingly to > > make sure 2.7/2.8 was not available in other profiles. Which kernels > > would packages.gentoo.org then show as masked..? > > > > Maybe more information (such as the profile enforcing the mask) will be > > available in the new version of the site which will hopefully go online > > soon. > > > > Daniel > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
