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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...
From:       Ernie Schroder <schroder () ntplx ! net>
Date:       2006-02-17 2:05:04
Message-ID: 200602162105.04151.schroder () ntplx ! net
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On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:23, a tiny voice compelled Nick Rout to write:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0800
>
> gentuxx wrote:
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> > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed
> > >>
> > >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and
> > >>>`emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants to rebuild my 2.6.13-r3
> > >>
> > >>Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ?
> > >>I mean, "u" for "update"?
> > >
> > >It doesn't matter, because kernels arer slotted.
> > >
> > >Have you synced? It doesn't matter if the package is stable in Gentoo's
> > >portage tree if you sill have the old ebuild.
> >
> > Yup.  Did it today just to check before sending the first post.
> > (Mentioned this in the first post.)
>
> I have a machine on which portage sometimes crashes near the end of emerge
> --sync. during the metadata part. This leaves portage in the position that
> it has all the ebuild files on the disk, but it's own database doesn't seem
> to know about it.
>
> Try emerge --metadata which will fix it if that is the problem.
>
> Anyway, to check when you last synced:
>
> genlop -r|tail
>
> (if you don't have genlop, it is in the package genlop (surprise?)
>
> the nitty gritties way to see what ebuilds are on your hard drive:
>
> ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/*.ebuild
> --
> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>


Just for the heck of it, do:
# cat /etc/portage/package* | grep gentoo-sources
Does that return anything?
how about:
cat /etc/make.conf | grep gentoo-sources

-- 
Regards, Ernie
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