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Kai Peter wrote: |
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> On 2019-06-20 20:10, Dale wrote: |
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>> Kai Peter wrote: |
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>>>> The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude |
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>>>> gentoo-sources |
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>>>> from things such as --depclean. It's annoying but it's the only way I |
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>>>> could come up with to do this. |
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>>> You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one time. |
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>> I read the man page for this option, I'm not sure how it would help. |
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>> All that does is prevent it from recording that it is installed in the |
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>> world file. Since I have -1 set as a default, it does that when I |
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>> emerge single packages already. If I want to keep it and it not be |
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>> --depcleaned, then I use -n --select y to add it to the world file. |
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>> Thing is, some packages require some sort of kernel to be installed as a |
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>> dependency last I checked. |
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>> Or am I missing something? |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> It is just to exclude a gentoo-sources version from depclean. I |
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> assumed you do something like this: |
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> $> emerge -c --exclude=gentoo-sources:4.14.83 |
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> and may be multiple times. With --noreplace the corresponding version |
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> will be omitted, so a simple 'emerge -c' would be enough. |
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> Anyway, I did struggle with this gentoo-sources thing a long time ago. |
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> I want to have the latest stable (minor) version (patch) of the |
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> running kernel installed as well the newest stable one. As long as it |
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> is not compiled and booted is uses only some disk space. If I have |
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> compiled the kernel I use e.g. 'emerge --noreplace |
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> gentoo-sources:4.14.83' to keep it. |
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> To get the latest patch version I have ...package.mask/gentoo-sources. |
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> For the latest stable sources I remove the file and re-create it |
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> afterwards. This is done by a cron job automatically. A little bit |
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> like this ('gentoo-sources' contains: ">=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15") |
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> FN="${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}/etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources" |
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> emerge -u gentoo-sources |
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> TMP=`cat $FN` |
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> rm -f $FN |
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> emerge -u gentoo-sources |
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> echo $TMP > $FN |
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> Just my way. To me it is important to have a high level of automation. |
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> With automation it is unimportant how many gentoo-sources kernels are |
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> installed. I remove obsolete ones periodically by hand. |
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> |
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> Kai |
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When I do --depclean, I just add --exclude gentoo-sources and it ignores |
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all versions of it. I only have to type it once that way. I do have a |
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few versions installed, one running plus a couple backups that are well |
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tested. At the moment, I have one that I haven't booted yet. I thought |
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a storm last night might give me that opportunity but the power held up |
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fine. |
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It sounds like you do something similar to me but you just automate it |
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more. Since I do update only a couple times a year at most, it's not a |
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big deal. I generally only run --depclean after a major KDE upgrade, |
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about once every 4 to 6 weeks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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