Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade

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

On 04/01/2018 00:07, Stroller wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Jan 2018, at 21:53, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> It installs exactly that version, and that exact version is recorded in
>>> the world file.
>>>
>>> $ grep -e source /var/lib/portage/world
>>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.9.34
>>
>> That's not a version, it's a slot. Whilst kernels are currently slotted
>> with the version number, nothing else is and there is no guarantee that
>> this will also hold for kernels.
> 
> Fair enough, but there's nothing else I need to treat this way.
> 
> I guess this risks that emerge will try to install 4.9.34-r1 during a future update, but I don't believe I've ever experienced that.

Only if the highest-versioned emerged sources are <4.9.34-r1
> 
>> If you do want to use versions, I'd recommend using ~ rather than = to
>> pick up patch-level updates.
> 
> What do you mean by this exactly, please?

=4.9.34 selects that exact version and only that specific version
~4.9.34 select that version and also 4.9.34-r1. There might need to be a
* on the end of ~4.9.34, I don;t quite recall. Answer in portage's man pages


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