Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'll do that from now on. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:09:48 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Okay - for my learning what happens when you do what I said and not | use the form you have? Is this only for kernel ebuilds or for all? It doesn't add an

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:09:48 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Okay - for my learning what happens when you do what I said and not | use the form you have? Is this only for kernel ebuilds or for all? It doesn't add an entry to the world file. IIRC it also doesn't update virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay - for my learning what happens when you do what I said and not use the form you have? Is this only for kernel ebuilds or for all? Thanks. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:26:03 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the s

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:26:03 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the subdirectory for the | kernel you want. You will see ebuilds for older versions. Do an | | emerge ./kernelIwant.ebuild Please don't do that, it screws things up. Inste

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome. Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:26:03 -0500, "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the subdirectory for the kernel you want. You will see ebuilds for older versions. Do an emerge ./kernelIwant.ebuild Thanks. -

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:26:03 -0500, "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the subdirectory for the kernel >you want. You will see ebuilds for older versions. Do an > >emerge ./kernelIwant.ebuild Thanks. -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Go into /usr/portage/sys-kernel and then the subdirectory for the kernel you want. You will see ebuilds for older versions. Do an emerge ./kernelIwant.ebuild Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: How can I emerge an older kernel than 2.4.23? I would like to do this for testing purposes for my module. Of co

[gentoo-user] emerge older kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
How can I emerge an older kernel than 2.4.23? I would like to do this for testing purposes for my module. Of course I can download the source from kernel.org but I would like to know if there is an " gentoo-approved"(tm) way. :) -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://sourcefor