Hello, Peter. On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:23:25PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 22 Aug 2016 11:19:07 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:12:59AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > After this morning's sync, both versions 4.4.6 and 4.6.4 of > > > gentoo-sources have disappeared. Is this just finger trouble in the > > > server chain? I get the same with UK and US sync servers.
> > I restrict myself (mostly) to stable releases, and there hasn't been one > > for gentoo-sources for a very long time. > Indeed, I've found the same on my stable systems. > > The latest stable kernel I see (with $ eshowkw gentoo-sources) is 4.1.15- > > r1, although 4.4.6 was stable and available at one stage :-(. > My x86 box is still running 4.4.6 because I don't want to plunge all the way > back to 4.1.45-r1. This box needs to be ~amd64 to get the latest NVMe and > amdgpu drivers. I never did get around to configuring and building 4.4.6. Maybe I should. But my box is now pushing 7 years old and seems built like a tank (albeit one that needed a new power supply after just over a year). I'm hoping that when the time comes, I'll still be able to buy a motherboard that will allow Gentoo to be installed on it. I can't see myself doing that any time soon. The only real reason to get a more powerful machine would be to be able to build libreoffice in a sensible amount of time. If that were a priority, I could just upgrade to 16 GB RAM and build LO in a ramdisk. > -- > Rgds > Peter -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
