what is gentoo-sources

Kartoffel · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 29

I unmerged my old linux sources and emerged and compilled gentoo-sources. But what I want to know is exactly what patches are in this kernel. all I see from the ebuild is that it is 2.4.18 with some gentoo patch applied.

Anyone know what base kernel I am using? 2.4.19-pre?? ? uname doesn't tell me. I am having problems with another program and I need to know exactly what kernel version I'm running to clear things up.

Thanks,
Jeff

plem · Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2002 7:27 pm Post subject:

You may be able to find out by going into /usr/src/linux and looking at the Makefile. That may tell you, then again it may not.

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Malakin · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 8:28 pm Post subject:

If you take a look at the top of the /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-2.4.19.ebuild you'll see it's commented, as are most of them. Most ebuilds have changelog files in the directory also.

I have no idea if this is correct but this is what the comment in gentoo-sources-2.4.19.ebuild says: