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On 03/01/18 21:39, Stroller wrote: |
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>> What this completely misses, is that gentoo-sources merely DOWNLOADS THE |
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>> > LATEST KERNEL SOURCE. So updating gentoo-sources every time does nothing |
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>> > to change the kernel you are running. |
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> I don't know why you think I missed that. |
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Because you're banging on like downloading the source is the same thing |
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as installing a new kernel - which it's not. |
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> If you `emerge gentoo-sources` then updates of them will appear every time you --pretend update world until you allow them to be emerged, hence my use of the word "nagged". |
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Which is why I just let them appear and clutter up /usr/src :-) |
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> If you want to install them, that's your prerogative, but just allowing them to be automatically emerged fills up your system with unwanted uncompressed kernel sources, consuming huge amounts of space. |
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I take your point - you're paying for storage by the meg, and a quick du |
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-sh tells me a kernel is approx 1G - ouch. |
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But is the OP like you, or like me - about to upgrade from a home system |
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that already has 6TB of storage ... |
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> 20GB should be ample space for an operating system IMO, but between /usr/src and /usr/portage it's pretty easy to consume a quarter of that. |
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I remember when it fitted on an 8" floppy :-) It was bad enough |
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installing Slack from a 30-floppy set ... |
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What would be nice, would be if "emerge --depclean" had the smarts to |
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recognise that /usr/src/linux pointed to the current active kernel, and |
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didn't wipe that when it cleaned out everything else :-) That way, at |
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most you could have the current and latest kernel sources available |
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pretty easily. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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