From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around?
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:35:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517CED49.9010505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130428011949.GA14514@syscon7.inet>
On 28/04/2013 03:19, Joseph wrote:
> When I run depclean, it prints out:
>
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> selected: 3.6.11 protected: none omitted: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5
> 3.7.10-r1
>
> ll /usr/src/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 26 12:35 linux -> linux-3.6.11-gentoo
>
> The system is using kernel 3.6.11; so I'll keep it.
> But why it tries to keep older kernels: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 ?
Those kernels are in world. Check the contents of /var/lib/portage/world.
You deleted /usr/src/<stuff>, that doesn't change in any way what
portage think you have installed, only --depclean or emerge -C does that
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-28 1:19 [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around? Joseph
2013-04-28 1:30 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-04-28 8:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-04-28 16:06 ` Randy Barlow
2013-04-28 16:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-28 17:51 ` Randy Barlow
2013-04-28 9:35 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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