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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:08:34
Message-Id: 20070416140030.52d8d49b@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:40:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > > > equery --quiet --nocolor list --duplicates gentoo-sources | awk
4 > > > '{print $1}' | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty emerge
5 > > > --unmerge &>/dev/null
6 > >
7 > > Out of interest:
8 > >
9 > > 1) Why --duplicates (i.e. am I missing something ;).
10 >
11 > No idea, I wrote the script a couple of years ago, if I'd wanted to
12 > remember how it worked I'd have commented it. :)
13
14 I remember now. If you have only one kernel installed, --duplicates
15 prevents it being uninstalled - quite a useful feature ;-)
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19 Neil Bothwick
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21 Oxymoron: Clearly Misunderstood.

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