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.

