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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
