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On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: |
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> I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently |
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> using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is |
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> the kernel image in /boot sufficient. Do I need to build myself a |
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> new working kernel before I reboot again? I can't reemerge 2.6.22-r2 |
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> becuase it's no longer available. Thanks |
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Hi Matt, |
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The answer to why this happens is in a thread from earlier today when |
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this happened to mark Knecht. Summary: |
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This is a new thing that --depclean does. Just remerge the sources you |
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want, put them in world if you want to guarantee that --depclean won't |
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be overly helpful in future. |
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As for the sources themselves, they are only needed to build a kernel or |
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out-of-tree modules (ati drivers, ndiswrapper, vmware-modules, etc |
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etc). You already have a working kernel, so you are safe. Gentoo does |
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not require anything in /usr/src - unlike most binary distros it |
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doesn't keep kernel headers there, they are somewhere else and |
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completely unaffected by the presence or absence of full sources. |
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If you do need to remerge the original sources, you can grab the |
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original ebuild from the gentoo attic. Google will find it for you |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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