On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:23, a tiny voice compelled Nick Rout to write: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0800 > > gentuxx wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > > >> > > >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and > > >>>`emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants to rebuild my 2.6.13-r3 > > >> > > >>Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? > > >>I mean, "u" for "update"? > > > > > >It doesn't matter, because kernels arer slotted. > > > > > >Have you synced? It doesn't matter if the package is stable in Gentoo's > > >portage tree if you sill have the old ebuild. > > > > Yup. Did it today just to check before sending the first post. > > (Mentioned this in the first post.) > > I have a machine on which portage sometimes crashes near the end of emerge > --sync. during the metadata part. This leaves portage in the position that > it has all the ebuild files on the disk, but it's own database doesn't seem > to know about it. > > Try emerge --metadata which will fix it if that is the problem. > > Anyway, to check when you last synced: > > genlop -r|tail > > (if you don't have genlop, it is in the package genlop (surprise?) > > the nitty gritties way to see what ebuilds are on your hard drive: > > ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/*.ebuild > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just for the heck of it, do: # cat /etc/portage/package* | grep gentoo-sources Does that return anything? how about: cat /etc/make.conf | grep gentoo-sources -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
