Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 04/09/2015 10:38, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:56:51 -0600, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> 
>>>>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>>>>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:3.10.17
>>>>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:3.5.7  
>>>>
>>>> Wee bit behind on kernel versions...  
>>>
>>> Yes, only the first is needed, *unless* thelma wants to keep 3.10.17
>>> and 3.5.7 for some reason.  
>>
>> Keeping in world only:
>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>>
>> will keep the newest kernel in world and unmerge 3.10.17 the one I'm
>> using
> 
> You don't need the source package for the kernel you're running, you've
> already compiled it, but there's another sets trick you can use to
> prevent depclean from removing kernel packages, put this
> in /etc/portage/sets.conf

I always keep full sources around for any runnable kernel I have, too
often I've been caught out needing to build a module without them :-)


> 
> [kernels]
> class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
> world-candidate = False
> files = /usr/src
> 
> It stops depclean removing any package that has files in /usr/src.
> 
> 


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Alan McKinnon
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