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Hi, Mick. |
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to |
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> > > remove the older 2.6 python package. |
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> > I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funnily enough, |
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> > it ran to completion without manual intervention. :-) I'd like to |
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> > run --depclean, but it's threatening to remove my 2.6.31-r6 kernel |
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> > sources, which correspond to my working kernel. What's the easiest |
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> > way to protect these from --depclean? |
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> Aha! That's why I said first look at what it wants to remove - you |
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> don't want to cripple your system. In this case of course it won't |
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> cripple anything, because it won't remove the kernel image from /boot/ |
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> If you look in /usr/src/linux/ you will see a number of kernel sources |
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> listed in there. If you've run update world there should be a more |
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> up-to-date kernel awaiting for you to configure and compile it. Do |
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> that first; copy the necessary files into /boot; configure grub.conf to |
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> boot with you latest kernel; and after you boot into it and check that |
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> all is good you can allow -- depclean to remove older kernel source |
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> files. |
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Yes, I've got new kernel sources, and yesterday and today I've spent |
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about 5 hours head-banging to get a working kernel. (I've managed it, |
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thankfully.) But the new kernel's X-windows isn't filling my 1920x1080 |
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shiny new monitor like the old kernel did. I've still got some fiddling |
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to do. |
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Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my |
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new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources. |
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It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime. Do I have to do |
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recursive copying or directory renaming to achiev this? |
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As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer |
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console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) as |
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contrasted with the 128 characters which were optimum on an old fashioned |
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CRT? |
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> PS. You may need to manually remove older source files left in |
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> /usr/src/linux/ when depclean completes its job. |
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OK. I can manage that. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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