[SOLVED] emerge tuxonice-sources kernel error on amd64 arch

[FFighter]

Hello,

I've got a HP dv6500se laptop with a Core 2 Duo T5250 1.50Ghz and I'd like to assemble a 64bit Gentoo system.

While reading through the documentation for specific recommendation for laptops, I've discovered the tuxonice-based kernel (hibernation support). I'd like to use this kernel, so, I tried to emerge it:

[Nick C]

That just means that your running amd64 (stable) and the only tuxonice-sources available are marked as ~amd64 (unstable). In order to install them you will need to add "sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources ~amd64" to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file
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[FFighter]

Hello Nick C, thanks for the reply!

[slycordinator]

It means that the gentoo devs haven't approved the package as stable; that's all it means.

Like if I make a new version of some program and I get an updated ebuild added to the portage tree, they default to having it masked as unstable and I seem to remember that most of the various gentoo arch teams used a rule that a package couldn't be added to stable until at least 30 days had passed w/o any bugs reported.

On the other hand, if something is truly unstable (meaning that it is known not to work for some reason) they use the "-arch" keyword. Like KEYWORDS="-amd64" means that the package is known to not work with amd64. They also use /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to flat out mask packages from being installed period (for the ones that are known to fail for all arch's).

[desultory]

Bear in mind that kernels derived from those sources are not currently officially supported, by Gentoo, so kernel bugs would need to be reproduced on a supported kernel to be handled through bugzilla.

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Portage & Programming, as this topic is more about package management than the actual installation process.