emerge 'ing old kernels

manodrum · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 2

is there a way i can "emerge" vanilla-sources from the 2.4.20 kernel so that i don't have to deal with the kdemultimedia bugs right now? or else, how would i go about downloading those sources? thanks

manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 739 Location: Inside

Go to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ and you can download kernels all the way back to 1.0 if you so choose.
Also if you look in /usr/portage/sys-kernel you will find a variety of kernel sources. Take a look in the various directories and see what ebuilds are available. You can emerge any directly by name, i.e.

b_Q · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 163

Hi
Am not aware why you should (am not an authority)
but the following will emerge the kernel you wish:

cd /usr/portage/sys-kernel/vanilla-sources

(just to download)
emerge -f vanilla-sources-2.4.20.ebuild
or any other kernel ebuild in that directory

(then to merge)
emerge vanilla-sources-2.4.20.ebuild

epatch ${FILESDIR}/do_brk_fix.patch || die "failed to patch for do_brk vuln"
i.e.
go right ahead the patch fixing the vulnerability refered by manywele
is included in vanilla-sources-2.4.20.ebuild
and as far as I know in every available gentoo kernel.

hih
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manodrum · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 2

well, is there a real fix for the kdemultimedia solution yet for kernels 2.4.21 and up? maybe that would make things easier...i was running 2.4.23 and was getting a compile error when i did "emerge kde" it had an error with kdemultimedia. i know there are plenty of posts about this error and ways to fix it, but everything seems a little jumbled. can someone tell me if it is better to downgrade to 2.4.20 or is there and easy fix, cause i've tried some of the things i read, and they didn't help.
thanks