On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM, maxim wexler <bliss...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >> > Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something >> I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, >> there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. >> Weird. >> >> Nothing is wrong. That file is required for klibc. From the >> ebuild notes: > > Yes, I saw that too, but > > 1) why doesn't it list it from the start? > 2) the 2.6.28 source is already in my box, and it wants the 26? > > Oh well, there goes my phone line for 5 more hrs <sob!> > > mw
It did include it in the total size estimate it gave in the first output (48,765 kB). Your confusion may be from this: it is not emerging a kernel package, it is simply downloading the kernel sources as part of the klibc package.
