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On 6/20/19 12:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:16:21 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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>> I was thinking about this for a bit, and thought that maybe adding the |
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>> slot to the package in /var/lib/portage/world would work. |
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> Every release has a separate slot, so this would never offer updates, no |
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> matter how minor. However, you may find emerge world wanting to downgrade |
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> if your chosen versions are no longer in the tree. |
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I guess I'll find out when that happens. I was just seeing if this would |
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work. |
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>> So, using `emerge --select` and `emerge --deselect` I set up my world |
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>> file this way: |
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>> # grep -i gentoo-sources /var/lib/portage/world |
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>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.105-r1 |
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>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.114 |
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>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.83 |
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>> I removed all other kernel packages manually so only those three are |
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>> installed. |
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>> However, portage still wants to install the latest gentoo-sources, even |
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>> though the generic "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" is absent from the world |
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>> file. |
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> Do you have anything depending on virtual/linux-sources? That pulls in |
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> gentoo-sources with no version limits. |
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Ah-ha! Thanks for the tip! nvidia-drivers does indeed depend on |
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virtual/linux-sources. I've put "virtual/linux-sources-3" in |
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/etc/portage/profile/package.provided as a test and now it will not pull |
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in the newest version. |
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I always have a kernel installed with a valid symlink so that's not an |
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issue putting it in package.provided. |
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So the above does work. You can specify a slot in the world file and |
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remove the generic "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" and it won't pull in a |
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newer kernel. |
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I check regularly with eshowkw to see what's been stabilized for |
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gentoo-sources anyway, now I don't have to worry about portage |
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installing a kernel version I don't need. |
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This way it'll only pull in a kernel version when I ask it to. Excellent. |
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Dan |
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