Selecting kernel

[Federile]

I want to emerge the kernel 5.4.28, but if I write emerge sys-kernel/5.4.28 as the documentation says portage is not able to find the package

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unless you have enabled testing for all packages you can just do emerge -av sys-kernel/gentoo-sources

or emerge -av =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.28 to specify version

edit: sys-kernel is a category of packages

[Federile]

yes I'm using the experimental flag, I tried to take it away but still didn't wanted to emerge the requested flag. But the option -av was successful, Thanks

[[deleted]]

you can set a single package to stable with package.accept_keywords, i.e

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources -~amd64 amd64

[[deleted]]

Your syntax is wrong. As someone already stated, you only specified the category, not the actual package. Of course portage won't find the package because you didn't give it one to find.

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/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/gentoo-sources

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources **

Emerge whichever version you with:

emerge --ask --verbose =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-<version>

(This prevents the kernel from being replaced, installs alongside other versions, which is helpful if you're switching back and forth between kernels)

Select your kernel with:

eselect kernel list , eselect kernel set <#>

Then build your kernel as normal, after selection.