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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Manually updating gentoo-sources
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 08:12:08
Message-Id: 20220204081144.0b76da80@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Manually updating gentoo-sources by Dale
1 On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 17:49:59 -0600, Dale wrote:
2 > I found a old email from Neil, hope you see this, and I think I followed
3 > it correctly but maybe I either missed something or things have changed
4 > since those instructions were posted.  What I'm wanting to do, update
5 > gentoo-sources manually and remove them manually as well but running
6 > emerge -auDN world doesn't pull in newer versions and --depclean leaves
7 > the older versions alone as well.  Following the email info, I ended up
8 > with this:
9 >
10 > root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/sets.conf
11 > [kernels]
12 > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
13 > world-candidate = False
14 > files = /usr/src
15
16 I do this.
17
18 > root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/sets/kernels
19 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
20 > root@fireball / #
21
22 But not this.
23
24 > and this I've tried with and without:
25 >
26 >
27 > root@fireball / # cat /var/lib/portage/world_sets
28 > kernels
29 > root@fireball / #
30
31 If you add the set to world_sets, it's the same as putting the kernel in
32 world.
33
34 > This is what I get tho:
35
36 > root@fireball / # emerge -auDN world
37 > Error during set creation: Redefinition of set 'kernels' (sections:
38 > 'usersets', 'kernels')
39
40 That's because there's already a set called kernels - emerge --list-sets
41 will show you all of them. Just rename your set.
42
43
44 --
45 Neil Bothwick
46
47 without C people would code in Basi, Pasal and Obol

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Re: [gentoo-user] Manually updating gentoo-sources Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>