[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants to re-emerge old kernel sources

[Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>]

On Friday 23 February 2007, Grant wrote:
> > > On one of my Gentoo systems, portage wants to re-emerge
> > > hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 and hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7 because of
> > > (-doc%).  I'm currently using hardened-sources-2.6.18-hardened, but
> > > whenever new kernel sources are emerged, I just manually rm -rf the
> > > old sources in /usr/src.  I guess portage wants to re-emerge the old
> > > sources because it thinks they are still installed.
> > >
> > > How can I let portage know that those old sources aren't installed
> > > anymore?
> >
> > By unmerging them ?
> >
> > # emerge -Cva =hardened-sources-2.6.16-r10 =hardened-sources-2.6.14-r7
>
> How can I see which versions of hardened-sources portage thinks are
> currently installed?  I guess I should manually unmerge old sources as
> above instead of using rm -rf.

# default emerge search
emerge -s hardened-sources

# this works great for cleaning out old versions like you want
emerge -Pp hardened-sources

# fast portage searchtool
emerge eix && update-eix && eix hardened-sources
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