On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 10:48, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > On 12/02/03 13:00:42, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > OK, I'm going completely buggy. I want to emerge alsa-xmms for my > > 2.4.20-r7 machine, but emerge is telling me it wants to emerge > > development-sources also. I do not have development-sources installed. > > Why must I do this? > > Because according to your virtuals file development-sources is providing > virtual/alsa support for your system. It may also be providing virtual/ > linux-sources. > > To remedy this make sure you have your running kernel (2.4.20-r7) is merged > and that the virtual/alsa line in /var/cache/edb/virtuals lists media- > sound/alsa-driver before sys-kernel/development-sources and lists sys- > kernel/gentoo-sources before sys-kernel/developemet-sources on the virtual/ > linux-sources line.
Thomas - thanks for responding. It all makes sense, but it isn't working out right as I try to get this cleaned up. I edited /var/cache/edb/virtuals to only have the two kernels called out that I have emerged <SNIP> virtual/linux-sources sys-kernel/aa-sources sys-kernel/gentoo-sources <SNIP> Currently I'm running 2.4.20-r7, but 2.4.20-r8 is merged. Maybe this is the problem? possibly I need to emerge -C r8 and emerge =r7 to get it perfectly in sync? Wizard root # emerge -p alsa-xmms These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.0_beta11 [ebuild N ] media-plugins/alsa-xmms-0.9.12 So, development-sources is not merged, and it's not under /usr/src, and it's no longer in /var/cache/edb/virtuals, but it's still getting pulled in. Why? > > > Is there a simple way for me to stop this occurance at the command > > line, or do I need to mask development-sources for some reason? Or do I > > need to install it even though I don't use it? I'm seeing this alot with > > Alsa packages recently, so I'm wondering if I have a make.conf option > > set that's doing this? > > What most likley happened is that you merged development-sources, unmerged > gentoo-sources then unmerged development-sources. Being the only installed > kernel at the time development-sources left itself as the only provider of > virtual/linux-sources and virtual/alsa. In order for this to not happen > again make sure you always have at least one kernel merged. I don't think I ever had no kernels merged, but I KNOW that what is merged is not always exactly what's running. 2.4.20-r8 came out, so it got merged by not built. I possibly did emerge -C 2.4.20-r7 but I really cannot remember exactly. It's not merged right now, even though the source tree does exist under /usr/src Wizard root # ls -l /usr/src total 12 root root 23 Sep 11 15:01 linux -> linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7/ root root 4096 Sep 11 15:08 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 root root 4096 Oct 25 07:52 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 root root 4096 Dec 1 22:29 linux-2.4.22-aa1 Wizard root # - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
