When I try emerging alpha-sources (version 2.4.21-r1), it fails with the error : * Cryptographic patches will be applied * Keeping {superfreeswan/patch-int/loop-jari} patches, dropping USAGI * Dropping 60_usagi-linux24-s20030707-2.4.21... * Applying do_brk_fix.patch... * Failed Patch: do_brk_fix.patch! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/alpha-sources-2.4.21-r1/temp/do_brk_fix.patch-32675.out !!! ERROR: sys-kernel/alpha-sources-2.4.21-r1 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 354, Exitcode 0 !!! Failed Patch: do_brk_fix.patch! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge alpha-sources 2. 3. Actual Results: kernel sources for Alpha (a la Gentoo) are not available for compilation Expected Results: provides the sources of the kernel for compilation Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-alpha-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r8, 2.4.20-2-generic) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-2-generic alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev56 -O3 -pipe " CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ev56 -O3 -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.irisa.fr/pub/gentoo-sources http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gnome gpm gtk imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pdflib png quicktime sdl spell truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline tcpd pam ssl perl python avi bonobo clamav doc dv dvd evo ffmpeg flash gamma gb gd gnomedb gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml hbci imagemagick imap innodb ipv6 kerberos lcms libgda mad mcal mdb memlimit menu mldonkeypango mozaccess mozcalendar mozinterfaceinfo mozirc mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg music oav odbc pic plotutils postgres samba sasl snmp tiff transcode type1 usb v4l videos vim-with-x wmf X509 xfs xinerama xml xosd xvid -kde -qt"
sorry, been really busy last few days ;) fixed in cvs