Re: [gentoo-user] some problems moving to 23.0 profile

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Monday, 1 April 2024 23:46:49 CEST John Covici wrote:
> Hi.  Well, I followed the steps in the news item,  to move
> todefault/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/gnome/systemd
> 
> and it all worked till it wants me to emerge  the whole world file.
> Here is what I get:
> 
> emerge --ask --emptytree @world
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies  .... done!
> Dependency resolution took 4.58 s (backtrack: 0/200).
> 
> 
> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
> !!! Please run emaint --check world
> 
> 
> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> !!! masked or don't exist:
> www-apps/nextcloud:26.0.10
> 
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy
> "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:6.1.69".
> (dependency required by "@kernels" [set])
> (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
> 
> I don't want to unmerge that kernel -- its my backup kernel, so I
> definitely want to keep it.  I am using the nextcloud they are
> complaining about , I will upgrade it soon, but I want to keep it for
> now.

Do you actually need to keep the kernel-sources?
Once the kernel is compiled and you moved the image to /boot/..., you don't 
need to keep the sources.

I also keep an older kernel just in case, but I don't tend to actually keep 
the sources around once I have confirmed the new kernel will boot.

--
Joost