Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Thomas Rösner" <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick Portage How to
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:29:59
Message-Id: 4602D872.60106@digital-trauma.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Quick Portage How to by Daniel Gryniewicz
1 Daniel Gryniewicz schrieb:
2 > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:55 +0100, Bernhard Auzinger wrote:
3 >
4 >>> 'unmerge'ing those you don't want will clean up portage's database of
5 >>> installed packages. Doesn't remove /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/
6 >>> though or old kernels from /boot/. Seems that manual deletion is
7 >>> required here.
8 >>>
9 >> That's because one may still want to use a compiled kernel after the removal
10 >> of the kernel sources.
11 >>
12 >>
13 >
14 > Actually, it's because portage only removes what portage installed,
15 > which is the source, in this case. It didn't install the modules (you
16 > did, by running make modules_install), so it won't remove them.
17 >
18
19 Even if they were installed by portage, /lib/modules is in CONFIG_PROTECT.
20
21 Regards,
22 Thomas
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