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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 10:27:35
Message-Id: 523D7490.6080204@gmail.com
1 emerge --depclean wants to remove the gentoo-sources for my old kernel
2 [sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13] which I want to hang on to for the
3 time being.
4
5 Is there a way to instruct emerge not to remove them?
6
7 emerge(1)
8 Packages that are part of the world set will always be kept. They can be
9 manually added to this set with emerge --noreplace <atom>.
10
11 If I understood the instruction above, 'emerge --noreplace
12 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' should have added 'gentoo-sources' to
13 /var/lib/portage/world_sets, which it didn't seem to do.
14
15 box0 src # emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13
16 !!! 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' is not a valid package atom.
17 !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
18
19
20 box0=; ls -l `pwd`/world*
21 -rw-r--r-- 1 root portage 920 Sep 20 20:45 /var/lib/portage/world
22 -rw-r--r-- 1 root portage 0 Sep 20 20:45 /var/lib/portage/world_sets
23
24 Or is it a matter of defining something like this:
25 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/usr/src/linux-3.8.13-gentoo"
26 in /etc/portage/make.conf?
27
28
29 Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources] Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources] "Randolph Maaßen" <r.maassen60@×××××.com>