Had this on 3 systems this morning: change the /etc/make.profile link to point to 2005.0 Note that 2005.0 has a 2.4 subdirectory that locks you into the 2.4 stuff if make.profile symlinks to it instead of one level up.
BillK On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 22:34 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > I am running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. As announced, > > gentoo-dev-sources > > has disappeared from sys/kernel leaving gentoo-sources. However, the > > Online > > Database lists 2.4.28-r8 as the latest stable build. I just ran emerge > > uDvp > > world and I am offered "NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r5", which > > is marked M+ in the database. I do not have any kernel in any /etc/portage > > files. Is the database not up to date or is something wrong at my end? > > Any > > advice appreciated. Thanks. > > This is a bug in packages.gentoo.org. Well, strictly not a bug. > packages.gentoo.org runs on a 2.4 kernel, and therefore uses a 2.4 profile. As > you might expect, all 2.6 kernels are hardmasked under the 2.4 profile. An > unfortunate side effect is that this is reflected in the content published on > the site. > > I asked the maintainer if he could do anything to resolve this - i.e. change > profile or refine the parsing. I didn't recieve a very positive answer. > > But this does raise other questions, particularly as we can now have much > finer control over masking now that we have decent cascading profiles. If > there was a 2.7/2.8 tree out, we'd have another profile tree for it, and we'd > add masks in the other profiles accordingly to make sure 2.7/2.8 was not > available in other profiles. Which kernels would packages.gentoo.org then show > as masked..? > > Maybe more information (such as the profile enforcing the mask) will be > available in the new version of the site which will hopefully go online soon. > > Daniel > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
