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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:02:44
Message-Id: C8CD0361-4555-4619-84EA-4204C2033C80@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade by Wols Lists
1 > On 3 Jan 2018, at 21:55, Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >
3 > What would be nice, would be if "emerge --depclean" had the smarts to
4 > recognise that /usr/src/linux pointed to the current active kernel, and
5 > didn't wipe that when it cleaned out everything else :-) That way, at
6 > most you could have the current and latest kernel sources available
7 > pretty easily.
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9 You've jogged a long-hibernating memory - the accidental removal of the current sources tree in an accident like this may be the exact reason why I refuse to allow kernel versions to be actively emerged.
10
11 Stroller.

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Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>