[gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a 2.4 ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). How do I get it? Thanks!! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Holly Bostick
Ian K schreef: Hi there, I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a 2.4 ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). As indeed there is: eix gentoo-sources * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Holly Bostick
What I meant to say was: Don't forget to add sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 to /etc/portage/package.mask. Stupid Thunderbird needs an escape character (or does it have one and I just don't know it?). Anyway, there should be a 'greater-than sign in fron of the package name, to mask all

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Peng
On 7/8/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian K schreef: Hi there, I need to get a 2.4 kernel onto a system, but gentoo-sources now gives 2.6. I checked gentoo-portage.com and it says that there is still a 2.4 ebuild in the gentoo-sources package(?). As indeed there is:

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Tero Grundström
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Peng wrote: Could it be possible to mask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.5 to block all 2.6 kernels but no 2.4s? That works and you'll also get the updates to the 2.4.x kernel with 'emerge -u world'. -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 03:30 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Don't forget to add sys-kernel-2.4.28-r9 to /etc/portage/package.mask. Better would be to change profile to a 2.4 kernel profile. If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/... you will see that (probably) under your current