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On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:42:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: |
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> > I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove |
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> > gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently |
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> > using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is |
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> > the kernel image in /boot sufficient. Do I need to build myself a |
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> > new working kernel before I reboot again? I can't reemerge 2.6.22-r2 |
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> > becuase it's no longer available. Thanks |
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> Hi Matt, |
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> The answer to why this happens is in a thread from earlier today when |
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> this happened to mark Knecht. Summary: |
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> This is a new thing that --depclean does. Just remerge the sources you |
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> want, put them in world if you want to guarantee that --depclean won't |
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> be overly helpful in future. |
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> As for the sources themselves, they are only needed to build a kernel or |
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> out-of-tree modules (ati drivers, ndiswrapper, vmware-modules, etc |
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> etc). You already have a working kernel, so you are safe. Gentoo does |
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> not require anything in /usr/src - unlike most binary distros it |
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> doesn't keep kernel headers there, they are somewhere else and |
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> completely unaffected by the presence or absence of full sources. |
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> If you do need to remerge the original sources, you can grab the |
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> original ebuild from the gentoo attic. Google will find it for you |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Thanks for the info. I'm really not in the mood for building a new kernel. |
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And I'll pay more attention in future, to --depclean and the list. Too much |
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work at the moment |
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Saludos |
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Matt |
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Dr. Matthew R. Lee |
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Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' |
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Universidad Austral de Chile |
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Campus Isla Teja |
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Valdivia |
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matt@××××××××××.org |
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URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org |
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