Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

[Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>]

On 09/21/2013 02:02 PM, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2013/9/21 Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>:
>> emerge --depclean wants to remove the gentoo-sources for my old kernel
>> [sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13] which I want to hang on to for the
>> time being.
>>
>> Is there a way to instruct emerge not to remove them?
>>
>> emerge(1)
>> Packages that are part of the world set will always be kept. They can be
>> manually added to this  set  with  emerge --noreplace <atom>.
>>
>> If I understood the instruction above, 'emerge --noreplace
>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' should have added 'gentoo-sources' to
>> /var/lib/portage/world_sets, which it didn't seem to do.
> No, this it the wrong file. the file /var/lib/portage/world is THE
> world set, it contains all packages you emerged manually (and with
> --noreplace).
> The file /var/lib/portage/world_sets can contain the name of other
> sets that should be included into the world.
>
>> box0 src # emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13
>> !!! 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' is not a valid package atom.
>> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
>>
>>
>> box0=; ls -l `pwd`/world*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root portage 920 Sep 20 20:45 /var/lib/portage/world
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root portage   0 Sep 20 20:45 /var/lib/portage/world_sets
>>
>> Or is it a matter of defining something like this:
>> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/usr/src/linux-3.8.13-gentoo"
>> in /etc/portage/make.conf?
>>
>>
>> Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>>
>
>
Understood.

Thanks.