Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 02:19:07
Message-Id: 5783A013-771F-4EBA-88D9-604E35A03E7A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade by Alan McKinnon
1 > On 3 Jan 2018, at 22:47, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 >>>>
4 >>>> What do you mean by this exactly, please?
5 >>>
6 >>> =4.9.34 selects that exact version and only that specific version
7 >>> ~4.9.34 select that version and also 4.9.34-r1. There might need to be a
8 >>> * on the end of ~4.9.34, I don;t quite recall. Answer in portage's man pages
9 >>
10 >> I thought it was something like that, but searched `man portage` for "~" more than one way, and didn't find reference to this. Am I blind?
11 >
12 > man 5 ebuild
13 >
14 > Section "Extended Atom Prefixes", it is near the top, probably first
15 > page on most screen sizes.
16 >
17 > The location is very non-obvious, I only know of it because I refr to it
18 > often once I found it
19
20 The ability to block atoms looks interesting, although I can't think when I'd use it.
21
22 Stroller.