On 11/10/2014 09:11, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > A recent world update wanted to install a lower version of > gentoo-source as a new slot. > [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.14:3.14.14 > [3.14.16:3.14.16] USE="-build -deblob -experimental -symlink" 0 kB > > I can't say I've had that happen before. > > I've noticed that the ebuild for my current version of gentoo-sources > is not in the portage tree any more. So my guess is that the only > gentoo-sources ebuild intended for x86 stable is > gentoo-sources-3.14.14: > grep ' x86' `pwd`/gentoo-sources-3.1[4-7]* > /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-3.14.14.ebuild:KEYWORDS="alpha > amd64 arm ~arm64 hppa ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86"
That's an awfully complicated command to see what's in the tree. Do you know about eix? "eix gentoo-sources" immediately shows you that the only stable version is 3.14.14 which is why portage is merging it. The fact that it's a new slot lower5 than something you had - that is incidental -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
