On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> [email protected]
>
>

Thanks for the reply.

I'll wait for the stable gentoo-sources that are a higher version than
what I have at the moment to become available in the portage tree.

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