Harry Putnam <[email protected]> writes: > Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit > > Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world > > Lists gentoo-sources in output like this: > > ,---- > | [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE="-build > | -deblob -symlink" 452 kB > `---- > > Even when adding -t (tree) to the cmdline it still does not indicate > what is pulling that in. It is shown unindented and same as above. > > That output indicates the only kernel installed is 3.3.4 but just to > check for sure: > > eix -Ic sources: > ,---- > | root # eix -Ic sources > | [D] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources (3.3.4(3.3.4)@04/29/12 -> > | 3.0.17-r2(3.0.17-r2)^bs (~)3.0.33(3.0.33)^bs (~)3.0.35(3.0.35)^bs > | (~)3.0.36(3.0.36)^bs 3.1.10-r1(3.1.10-r1)^bs 3.2.1-r2(3.2.1-r2)^bs > | 3.2.12(3.2.12)^bs (~)3.2.14(3.2.14)^bs (~)3.2.16(3.2.16)^bs > | (~)3.2.21(3.2.21)^bs): Full sources including the Gentoo patchset > | for the 3.4 kernel tree > `---- > > I guess you can't really see it in that output without me adding some > fancy escaping and ansi sequences, but 3.3.4 is highlighted indicating > it is the only one installed. > > And I have this in /etc/portage/package.mask > >>=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.3.5 > > So why is version 3.2.21 being installed? > > If something besides an earlier kernel being installed was the cause > it should show up by using -t right?
It is because 3.2.21 is the latest gentoo-sources <3.3.5 in the tree. 3.3.4 is no longer in the tree, so portage is downgrading to the latest non-masked version in the tree.
