From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F661381F3 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F9DAE08A8; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:48:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f52.google.com (mail-wg0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7612E086D for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f52.google.com with SMTP id k13so3033791wgh.31 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:48:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fa98UlXLnvNa+V3Da/5c1ZL54OQeqzQ5Lsj7spReKl0=; b=ydmu4t2JpuRNrGpyqzicnKpgoLy/sv9sUnCIjTX57APlyOFRf959o98QC+9wMbBQA5 jPc0qjORP3tnYSMtazYKukfGeG+C3NoNzPJJ8CDl91gIU36eMelIxgV9SawlHpFoGDfO d/EOiQWoJS6kOQOZUpSnnyqboUz3FljUhp0ozDcF6lXaQr+uaOkvmWxN5Xp+lExAP895 RC3iBo0M4ocryzbKCAIxN8p1tkbUxRbuikfntZdwgJg9+27trWgSUQ8eUsn9PpJuTYty F0eEiFD273+W4PUXalh6xaGoRks1gF6aogMHobHjB27ZEqqGgolVL78u1RhH0J9bqrK6 iQ8A== X-Received: by 10.194.78.204 with SMTP id d12mr692912wjx.42.1367167718531; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-215-203-210.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.203.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o3sm16868952wia.2.2013.04.28.09.48.26 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <517D5291.4020407@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:47:13 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130413 Thunderbird/17.0.5 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around? References: <20130428011949.GA14514@syscon7.inet> <20130428092917.7e5e882c@digimed.co.uk> <1367165208.2194.186.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1367165208.2194.186.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a042c291-cb06-4587-bbf9-bf7134041e51 X-Archives-Hash: 5d69d1238e1275be4e66709e0758bbdc 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- 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