on 01/31/2014 06:35 PM Khumba wrote the following: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:29:21 +0200 > Thanasis <thana...@asyr.hopto.org> wrote: > >> Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest >> 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with >> the latest gentoo-sources? >> >> Currently, that would be version 3.10.28. >> I know I can specify it like so, >> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.28 >> >> but then it would not get "auto-updated" when a newer version of that >> series (for example 3.10.29) becomes available in portage. > > I don't have Gentoo in front of me so I can't verify this now, but I > thought it worked to put the following in your world file: > > <sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.11 > > Of course if all 3.10 kernels are removed from the tree then this will > pull in a wrong kernel, but I *think* that's valid world file > syntax... >
I don't know if what you're suggesting would work, yet if you noticed as I wrote in the first place, I would also like to pull in the *latest* gentoo-sources, *independently* of any specific series/subseries. Do you think it would work?
