[gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel
Hi there, I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a 2.4 ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). How do I get it? Thanks!! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel
Ian K schreef: Hi there, I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a 2.4 ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). As indeed there is: eix gentoo-sources * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Available versions: 2.4.28-r9 2.6.9-r9 2.6.10-r6 2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r11 [M]2.6.12-r3 [M]2.6.12-r4 Installed: 2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r11 Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources Description: Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree How do I get it? Try this: emerge -av =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r9 Don't forget to add sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 to /etc/portage/package.mask, or Portage will keep trying to upgrade you. If there's a 2.4-series upgrade, that will also be blocked, but you are likely to be keeping an eye open for any such updates, and can adjust your package.mask accordingly. Thanks!! HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel
What I meant to say was: Don't forget to add sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 to /etc/portage/package.mask. Stupid Thunderbird needs an escape character (or does it have one and I just don't know it?). Anyway, there should be a 'greater-than sign in fron of the package name, to mask all packages above it (which atm basically means all 2.6 series kernels). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel
On 7/8/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian K schreef: Hi there, I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a 2.4 ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). As indeed there is: eix gentoo-sources * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Available versions: 2.4.28-r9 2.6.9-r9 2.6.10-r6 2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r11 [M]2.6.12-r3 [M]2.6.12-r4 Installed: 2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r11 Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources Description: Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree How do I get it? Try this: emerge -av =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r9 Don't forget to add sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 to /etc/portage/package.mask, or Portage will keep trying to upgrade you. If there's a 2.4-series upgrade, that will also be blocked, but you are likely to be keeping an eye open for any such updates, and can adjust your package.mask accordingly. Thanks!! HTH, Holly Could it be possible to mask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.5 to block all 2.6 kernels but no 2.4s? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Peng wrote: Could it be possible to mask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.5 to block all 2.6 kernels but no 2.4s? That works and you'll also get the updates to the 2.4.x kernel with 'emerge -u world'. -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 03:30 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Don't forget to add sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 to /etc/portage/package.mask. Better would be to change profile to a 2.4 kernel profile. If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/... you will see that (probably) under your current profile there will be a 2.4 directory e.g. /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4/ which not only sets kernel to 2.4 but also makes other changes to stay compatible e.g. setting headers to 2.4 and setting dev-manager to devfsd instead of udev. So switch your /etc/make.profile symlink to a 2.4 profile and all will be happy. The wonders of Gentoo stackable profiles, indeed. Ed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
