Hello, I'm sysadmin in a DATACENTER and have actually 70 boxes running under gentoo, a really good distro. But I have 10 boxes running under this raid controler : IDE Raid Promise PDC20271 (FastTrak TX2000) This Raid controler is only supported in 2.4 series, not supported in 2.6 Actually what I see : emerge search sys-libs/glibc sys-libs/glibc Latest version available: 2.3.5-r1 Latest version installed: 2.3.4.20040808-r1 Size of downloaded files: 15,628 kB root@mailing1 etc # emerge -pv sys-libs/glibc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.5" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r2 (masked by: profile) - sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.8.1-r4 (masked by: profile) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook. !!! (dependency required by "sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r1" [ebuild]) So what I see is that 2.4 kernel series are no more supported by Gentoo !!! I come back in time : http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050725-newsletter.xml I read -> Keeping gentoo-sources-2.4 So the conclusion is -> No more upgrade avaible for this boxes, no more security upgrade avaible for this boxes, no more installation possible for this boxes ! This is realy blocking me. Regards
This happens if you have nptl in your useflags. I guess that this flag should be masked for the 2.4 profiles, but you can simply remove it yourself.
Obviously bogus bug...
