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 18:47:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517D5291.4020407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367165208.2194.186.camel@localhost>
On 28/04/2013 18:06, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 09:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> Do you have them in your world file?
>
> I've noticed a few time before that gentoo-sources occasionally ends up
> in my world file with a specific version (rather than just being
> unversioned, like most packages in world). This will cause depclean to
> leave those versions installed.
>
> I've never determined what I am doing that causes that to get there with
> the specific version, but I've noticed it gets in there sometimes. I
> just remove it from the file and continue, but perhaps one day I'll
> figure out when (and why) it's getting in there in the first place.
>
By far the most likely cause is you type
emerge =gentoo-sources-<something>
and forget to use the -1 option. It's the same thing that results in
packages called *lib* in world
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-28 16:48 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2013-04-28 17:51 ` Randy Barlow
2013-04-28 9:35 ` Alan McKinnon
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