On Thursday 15 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > you can add lines by hand in /var/lib/portage/world > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.24-r7 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.24-r8 > > Note the use of the colon instead of the dash. Don't ask me why but > that's what works.
You can't put version numbers into the world file, but you can use SLOTs indicated with a colon. Kernel packages are always SLOTted, each version get's it's own SLOT. That is so that you can have as many versions installed as you want. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
