Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p output looks weird

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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Dale wrote:
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> 
> 
>>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
> 
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>    selected: 2.6.23-r8
>   protected: none
>     omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.24-r4
> 
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>    selected: 2.6.23-r9
>   protected: none
>     omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.24-r4
> 
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>    selected: 2.6.24-r3
>   protected: none
>     omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.24-r4
> 
[snip]
> What looks weird you ask, why is it listing them that way?  They are
> separately listed and I don't recall ever seeing it listed that way
> before.  They are usually in one section.

That's a side effect from the fix for this bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201045

The code was never written to preserve unmerge order, but now that
it's been tweaked to do so, it displays a bit differently in cases
like this. It would be possible to make it look like it used to in
cases when the order doesn't matter, but since it's only
superficial, it's not a really a high priority.

> Another odd thing is this:
> 
> root@smoker / # uname -r
> 2.6.23-gentoo-r8
> root@smoker / # ls -al /usr/src/
> total 3
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  176 2008-04-04 16:58 .
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  496 2008-01-23 09:31 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 2006-08-03 09:23 .keep
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   32 2008-04-04 16:58 linux ->
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r8/
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1424 2008-04-04 17:21 linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r8
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1472 2008-04-03 22:32 linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4
> root@smoker / #
> 
> It wants to remove the currently running kernel as well.  Seems it used
> to leave that one in the past.  I may be wrong tho.

That's this bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198200

With <portage-2.2_pre the only solution is to add the versions that
you want to keep to the world file, like this:

emerge --noreplace =gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r8

After you do that, depclean shouldn't want to remove that one.

Zac
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