Re: emerge --depclean -p output looks weird

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emerge --depclean -p output looks weird
\ Dale (5 Apr 2008)
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. . \ Dale (5 Apr 2008)

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Subject:	Re: emerge --depclean -p output looks weird
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Dale
Date:	5 Apr 2008

Zac Medico wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>
> >>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
> > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> > selected: 2.6.23-r8
> > protected: none
> > omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.24-r4
>
> > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> > selected: 2.6.23-r9
> > protected: none
> > omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.24-r4
>
> > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> > selected: 2.6.24-r3
> > protected: none
> > omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.24-r4
>
> [snip]
> > What looks weird you ask, why is it listing them that way? They are
> > separately listed and I don't recall ever seeing it listed that way
> > before. They are usually in one section.
>
> That's a side effect from the fix for this bug:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201045
>
> The code was never written to preserve unmerge order, but now that
> it's been tweaked to do so, it displays a bit differently in cases
> like this. It would be possible to make it look like it used to in
> cases when the order doesn't matter, but since it's only
> superficial, it's not a really a high priority.
>
> > Another odd thing is this:
>
> > root@smoker / # uname -r
> > 2.6.23-gentoo-r8
> > root@smoker / # ls -al /usr/src/
> > total 3
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 176 2008-04-04 16:58 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 496 2008-01-23 09:31 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-08-03 09:23 .keep
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2008-04-04 16:58 linux ->
> > /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r8/
> > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1424 2008-04-04 17:21 linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r8
> > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1472 2008-04-03 22:32 linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4
> > root@smoker / #
>
> > It wants to remove the currently running kernel as well. Seems it used
> > to leave that one in the past. I may be wrong tho.
>
> That's this bug:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198200
>
> With <portage-2.2_pre the only solution is to add the versions that
> you want to keep to the world file, like this:
>
> emerge --noreplace =gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r8
>
> After you do that, depclean shouldn't want to remove that one.
>
> Zac

Aaaaaaa, I see now. I didn't know you could put a specific version in
the world file. That's cool. It worked too.

Now I can get rid of the other kernels too. The newer kernel didn't get
along with my Nvidia card for some reason. It worked just slow as leap
year. Went back to my old kernel.

Thanks for the info.

Dale

:-) :-)
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