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Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 6/19/19 11:27 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: |
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>> On 6/19/19 11:37 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: |
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>>> echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> |
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>>> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels |
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>> Perfect! |
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>> Thank you. :-) |
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>> I did name the file /etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources as I |
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>> like to name the file after the package that it's meant to effect. |
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>> The testing is even better than I had originally hoped. |
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>> gentoo-sources-4.14.127.ebuild came in since I did my updates a few |
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>> days ago. So now emerge is telling me there is a new version of |
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>> gentoo-sources, that is within my specified parameters. :-) |
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> I was thinking about this for a bit, and thought that maybe adding the |
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> slot to the package in /var/lib/portage/world would work. |
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> So, using `emerge --select` and `emerge --deselect` I set up my world |
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> file this way: |
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> # grep -i gentoo-sources /var/lib/portage/world |
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> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.105-r1 |
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> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.114 |
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> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.83 |
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> I removed all other kernel packages manually so only those three are |
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> installed. |
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> However, portage still wants to install the latest gentoo-sources, |
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> even though the generic "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" is absent from the |
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> world file. |
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> I figured this would be a way to manually update the kernel without |
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> having to manually add and remove masks. Darn. |
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> That's not how I'd expect portage to handle that situation (or maybe |
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> it's just me?) Can a dev chime in? |
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> Dan |
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I don't think my way will be any better but this is how I do it. I mask |
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gentoo-sources completely until I want to update. When I want to |
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update, I comment out the mask in the mask file and uncomment the entry |
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in the keyword file. At that point I can emerge whatever version I want |
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and then undo the changes when I've emerged it. |
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The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources |
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from things such as --depclean. It's annoying but it's the only way I |
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could come up with to do this. |
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Honestly, I'm not sure there is a easy way to do this. No matter how it |
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is done, it causes some other annoying issue to pop up. I was hoping |
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someone had a really nifty idea on this which is why I'm also following |
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this thread. My way might be a option but then again, you may not like |
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it for the same reasons I don't. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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