[gentoo-user] portage usage problems

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I have two tiny problems in using portage.

- How can I get a list of all packages for which there is a newer
  version.
  emerge --update world doesn't work since it doesn't respect my
  ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" setting, i.e. it doesn't show new
  packages if they are "masked" by the "~x86" keyword.

- Whenever I install a new kernel I have to reinstall all those packages
  which generate a kernel module, e.g. nvidia-drivers, openafs-kernel
  or virtualbox-modules.
  When emerge has installed the kernel module in
  /lib/modules/<new-kernel>/...
  it removes the corresponding module in
  /lib/modules/<old-kernel>
  Since I want a fall back possibility I'd like to tell emerge
  not to remove the modules for the <old-kernel>.
  How can this be done?

Many thanks for a hint,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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