Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Manually updating gentoo-sources
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 23:53:48
Message-Id: 8fac05e7-9a35-9f80-83a6-06e9db6b1b1f@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Manually updating gentoo-sources by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 11:44:01 -0600, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
5 >>
6 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
7 >> [ebuild  NS   ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.16.3:5.16.3::gentoo
8 >> [5.6.7:5.6.7::gentoo, 5.10.46:5.10.46::gentoo, 5.14.15:5.14.15::gentoo,
9 >> 5.15.17:5.15.17::gentoo] USE="-build -experimental -symlink" 120,568 KiB
10 >>
11 >> Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 120,568 KiB
12 >>
13 >> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
14 >>
15 >> It still wants to upgrade.  Could it be that something is pulling it in
16 >> as a dependency or something?  Am I still doing something wrong? This is
17 >> a update to the above:
18 > It is probably being pulled in as a dependency of virtual/linux-sources,
19 > which is part of your profile.
20 >
21 >
22
23
24 So I need to go back to my old way, mask them all and unmask when I want
25 to upgrade?  It's what I'm used to doing anyway.  lol 
26
27 Dale
28
29 :-)  :-) 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Manually updating gentoo-sources Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>