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
