Re: [gentoo-user] kernel make files disappear

[Daniel Hilst Selli <danielhilst@gmail.com>]

Em 28-07-2011 12:05, Alan McKinnon escreveu:
> On Thursday 28 July 2011 11:53:04 Daniel Hilst Selli did opine thusly:
>> I have some old kernel trees here.. But there is no Makefiles for
>> some of them. I did not remove the Makefiles. There is anyone
>> having the same problem? Whats happen?
>>
>> I emerge -NuD periodically, some times I see my kernel
>> being updated.. May portage remove my Makefiles??
> In real life, portage seldom (if ever) *updates* a kernel src package.
> Almost all kernel versions, even ones with teeny-weeny -r changes in
> the version number, are an entirely new package which installs into
> it's own directory in /usr/src/
>
> So,
> gentoo-sources-2.6.39-r1
> will touch nothing belonging to
> gentoo-sources-2.6.39
>
> This is in contrast to how most packages work, where -r versions
> contain gentoo patches or ebuild tweaks but still use exactly the same
> sources.
>
> Perhaps you have unmerged old kernel sources that were previously
> built. In this case portage will remove the files it put there and
> leave everything the compiler built. Run this:
>
> du -sh /usr/src/*
>
> Anything with a size of about 300M has probably had this happen.
> Intact trees that were built tend to come out at around 700M
>
Thanks for replying, so this might be the case
output -> http://sprunge.us/YMAM

Can this be done after a emerge --depclean, while booted on some newly 
emerged kernel?

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