From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29720 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 07:14:00 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 07:14:00 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AcJVP-0008AS-5z for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 07:13:59 +0000 Received: (qmail 13994 invoked by uid 50004); 2 Jan 2004 07:13:56 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18039 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 07:13:55 +0000 From: Brian To: gentoo-portage-dev Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1073027790.3678.24.camel@big_squirt.dol-sen.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:16:30 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] multiple kernel driver emerges X-Archives-Salt: 62b3d921-b9e8-4667-a30e-20fd26307d53 X-Archives-Hash: 812c4eae9e28e91653db95699e70ba8e A problem that I (and others) have is portage unmerging kernel drivers from an existing kernel when emerging them to a new kernel. ala emerge nvidia-kernel emerge alsa-driver unmerges the driver from your current kernel before you have a known good new kernel. Is there a current method for doing so that I missed? If not could an additional protected flag be set to prevent unmerging if the kernel version is different than the last emerge of the driver, similar to the slot #? it would make life a lot easier for noobs & non experts to work out kerenel configs without messing up a working kernel. -- Brian -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list