On 6/21/20 6:31 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
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From: james <gar...@verizon.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 21:36
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo
On 6/17/20 12:52 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
Hello,
I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for
some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution?
I see that currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources.
Thanks,
raffaele
I use a 3.18.40 kernel, currently, on one of my AMD systems. It has
thousands of source build packages, not only from portage but many others.
What about the rest of the system, in particular GCC and the C libraries? Do
you manage to build the 3.x kernel with up to date system or do you need to
''freeze'' some packages?
Thanks,
raffaele
Sorry I missed this.
YES every thing else is up to date; sometimes I have to 'hack' at
updates a few days, but most is current. Most of the old codes, are
one's where I put the code and the ebuild together, for consistency.
Ask me anything and I'll reply with the version number. In fact, many of
the codes are ~ so they are the latest versions. The one caveat:
python-2.7 is a mess and I have some codes using python 3.8 and are
asking for 3.9....
dev-lang/python
Available versions:
(2.7) 2.7.17-r2 2.7.18
(3.6) 3.6.10-r1(3.6/3.6m)^t 3.6.10-r2(3.6/3.6m)^t
(3.7) 3.7.7-r1(3.7/3.7m)^t 3.7.7-r2(3.7/3.7m)^t ~3.7.8(3.7/3.7m)^t
(3.8) 3.8.2-r1^t 3.8.2-r2^t ~3.8.3^t
(3.9) ~3.9.0_alpha6^t ~3.9.0_beta1^t ~3.9.0_beta2^t ~3.9.0_beta3^t
Sorry for the delayed response.
hth,
James
