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On Thursday 28 July 2011 11:53:04 Daniel Hilst Selli did opine thusly: |
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> I have some old kernel trees here.. But there is no Makefiles for |
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> some of them. I did not remove the Makefiles. There is anyone |
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> having the same problem? Whats happen? |
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> |
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> I emerge -NuD periodically, some times I see my kernel |
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> being updated.. May portage remove my Makefiles?? |
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In real life, portage seldom (if ever) *updates* a kernel src package. |
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Almost all kernel versions, even ones with teeny-weeny -r changes in |
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the version number, are an entirely new package which installs into |
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it's own directory in /usr/src/ |
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So, |
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gentoo-sources-2.6.39-r1 |
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will touch nothing belonging to |
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gentoo-sources-2.6.39 |
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This is in contrast to how most packages work, where -r versions |
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contain gentoo patches or ebuild tweaks but still use exactly the same |
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sources. |
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Perhaps you have unmerged old kernel sources that were previously |
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built. In this case portage will remove the files it put there and |
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leave everything the compiler built. Run this: |
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du -sh /usr/src/* |
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Anything with a size of about 300M has probably had this happen. |
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Intact trees that were built tend to come out at around 700M |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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