From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QENYy-0006kH-1g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:19:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BCDF1C005; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A12A1C005 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 46770 invoked by uid 3782); 25 Apr 2011 15:17:17 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9557378.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.115.120]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:17:15 +0200 Received: (qmail 4144 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Apr 2011 15:03:21 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:03:21 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!] Message-ID: <20110425150321.GA4077@acm.acm> References: <20110422180508.GA17715@acm.acm> <201104241644.32602.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110425121153.GB4594@acm.acm> <201104251512.25621.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201104251512.25621.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 81c5a843cd890f9b2ed3c0eddb8e0d80 Hi, Mick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to > > > remove the older 2.6 python package. > > I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funnily enough, > > it ran to completion without manual intervention. :-) I'd like to > > run --depclean, but it's threatening to remove my 2.6.31-r6 kernel > > sources, which correspond to my working kernel. What's the easiest > > way to protect these from --depclean? > Aha! That's why I said first look at what it wants to remove - you > don't want to cripple your system. In this case of course it won't > cripple anything, because it won't remove the kernel image from /boot/ > If you look in /usr/src/linux/ you will see a number of kernel sources > listed in there. If you've run update world there should be a more > up-to-date kernel awaiting for you to configure and compile it. Do > that first; copy the necessary files into /boot; configure grub.conf to > boot with you latest kernel; and after you boot into it and check that > all is good you can allow -- depclean to remove older kernel source > files. Yes, I've got new kernel sources, and yesterday and today I've spent about 5 hours head-banging to get a working kernel. (I've managed it, thankfully.) But the new kernel's X-windows isn't filling my 1920x1080 shiny new monitor like the old kernel did. I've still got some fiddling to do. Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources. It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime. Do I have to do recursive copying or directory renaming to achiev this? As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) as contrasted with the 128 characters which were optimum on an old fashioned CRT? > PS. You may need to manually remove older source files left in > /usr/src/linux/ when depclean completes its job. OK. I can manage that. > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).