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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:51:31
Message-Id: m3ftjtd97g.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:05:03 -0400,
2 Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>]
5 > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:49:26 -0400, John Covici wrote:
6 >
7 > > > > > Put this in /etc/portage/sets.conf
8 > > > > >
9 > > > > > [kernels]
10 > > > > > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
11 > > > > > world-candidate = False
12 > > > > > files = /usr/src
13 > > > > >
14 > > > > > Then "emerge -n @kernels"
15 > > > > >
16 > > > > > Now depclean won't try to remove any kernels, or any other package
17 > > > > > that installs files to /usr/src.
18 > > > > Well, this didn't seem to work, when I tried to emerge -n @kernels
19 > > > > it said nothing to emerge, after the calculating, etc.
20 > > >
21 > > > It won't emerge anything, that command adds the kernels set to
22 > > > world_sets.
23 > > > > and it certainly did not work.
24 > > >
25 > > > As in depclean still wants to remove kernels? Or as in nothing
26 > > > /appeared/ to happen?
27 > >
28 > > As in depclean still wants to remove kernels.
29 >
30 > Is @kernels in /var/lib/portage/world_sets?
31
32 That file is empty.
33
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