Title: pf-sources-extended now carries LTS kernels only
Author: Ivan S. Titov <iohann.s.titov@gmail.com>
Posted: 2026-10-07
Revision: 1
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Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.2_p7
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.3_p5
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.4_p6
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.5_p6
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.7_p7
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.8_p9
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.9_p6
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.10_p4
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.11_p4
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.13_p6
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.14_p6
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.15_p6
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.16_p5
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.17_p4
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.19_p5
Display-If-Installed: ~sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-7.0_p2

sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended now carries only the LTS kernel
branches:

    6.1_p6-r3, 6.6_p6-r3, 6.12_p4-r3, 6.18_p6-r3

The ebuilds for 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.13,
6.14, 6.15, 6.16, 6.17 and 6.19 have been removed; 7.0 was removed on
2026-05-15. These branches are end-of-life upstream, so linux-stable no
longer fixes them, and tracking linux-stable is the point of this
package.

== What to do ==

An installed source tree stays in /usr/src/ until you unmerge it, but
it can no longer be reinstalled and gets no further fixes. Move to one
of the LTS slots above; 6.18 is the newest. These ebuilds carry
KEYWORDS="" and must be accepted explicitly in
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords, for example:

    =sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-6.18_p6-r3 **

Emerge it, build and boot the new kernel, then unmerge the old source
tree:

    emerge --unmerge =sys-kernel/pf-sources-extended-X.Y_pZ

Outside this package, sys-kernel/pf-sources carries the full pf-kernel
patchset, and ::gentoo's sys-kernel/gentoo-sources tracks linux-stable
without the pf delta.