Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

[Grant]

> > > > On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge
> > > > hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of
> > > > (-doc%).  I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but
> > > > whenever new kernel sources are emerged, I just manually rm -rf the
> > > > old sources in /usr/src.  I guess portage wants to re-emerge the old
> > > > sources because it thinks they are still installed.
> > > >
> > > > How can I let portage know that those old sources aren't installed anymore?
> > >
> > > By unmerging them ?
> > >
> > > # emerge -Cva =hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 =hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7
> >
> > How can I see which versions of hardened-sources portage thinks are
> > currently installed?  I guess I should manually unmerge old sources as
> > above instead of using rm -rf.
> >
> > - Grant
>
> Yes, you can:
>
> $ equery list --duplicates [<searchstring>]
>
> In your case <searchstring> should be 'sources'. Without <searchstring>
> it looks for all duplicates, installed in so-called slots.

It is true then that emerge --depclean never unmerges slotted packages?

- Grant
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