Subj : old gentoo kernel
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Gert Andersen
Date : Wed Apr 08 2020 10:36 am

Hello Gert Andersen!

Wednesday April 08 2020 03:23, you wrote to me:

 BP>>> you running with a very old kernel with secureity bugs, upgrade
 BP>>> to 4.9 stable or as me atleast 5.5.13, i hope you dont lost all
 BP>>> the spirit with gentoo as Janus did

 GA>> I know but it is the gentoo source there not will do its update
 GA>> update right by by command emerge --oneshot portage, there said I
 GA>> have to use SHH5 and must use 6 or 7 for it.

 BP> what ?

 BP> emerge --sync
 BP> emerge --autounmask --autounmask-write sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
 BP> etc-update
 BP> emerge -av sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
 BP> emerge -a --depclean

 BP> so far so good ?

 BP> is make.conf missing symlink USE flag ?

 BP> if no

 BP> zcat /proc/config.gz >/usr/src/linux/.config

 BP> nice ?

 BP> you miss genkernel ?

 BP> emerge sys-kernel/genkernel

 BP> last step

 BP> genkernel --oldconfig all
 BP> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

 BP> all there is left is to reboot

It is that I need to get the portage to be umasked in reason that the emerge 
say I am using EAPI 5 and that potage and 5 files is masked with EAPI 6 and 7, 
and then I trying all auto unmask command it do not working.

Take care
Gert Andersen

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