From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CD8A138206 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2018 22:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A438E08D1; Wed, 3 Jan 2018 22:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wr0-x244.google.com (mail-wr0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c0c::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6CBEE0887 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2018 22:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wr0-x244.google.com with SMTP id p6so831191wrd.0 for ; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:17:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fFkw7wFY11SqB3f5tZKAEGVbdR8ehultENsiv0Oxik4=; b=eUE0Si4ije3JwXV1UlFDdrRJTH+FRZnDm+KKsTEFeenMRQqY/+cRY5JOAwEgv5sFOf sRHBXO4tmgfxbfCObu3Yowk1EfR7QflBB2kpXYjefWWBRJZImKIgqnKCBFInmEckFchJ Pw9dcSndMRMJ4Isj5Jf7Sqz2TyVdn7LgYpgli40+EfD1MXBiIyJA+RmPTmybE7XTJ+RF WW1DtmqdQdpJ+Wq7N+tNbRZkzEE/bF+7zolNWEKIyd8UjEBAkYzzuOUbUheLrgfJYiQS 9wufYDyJABrRuZzHQ9W0ip7YtsweOh3YjDPk+JEwAPMNiTCIdfRY6SCEbRJis4fCmTnd Cspw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fFkw7wFY11SqB3f5tZKAEGVbdR8ehultENsiv0Oxik4=; b=eZOBTlw9nwxi+up7Wl5htjD2lCZZUow94n8KT0lIAMqOJWWHMR9DqhmC5eJ75XowG7 yPy/1zT0CM1O+faVE+apLYYqPseQaz1hSY/nzgSLAZSY1YRWTeKnP3w0cb4LNXPsFXLY mVlMd7OpwngECvt4VkUjwFGS7uNQh9YadSudcjHAN3bOSL/+GUsL2OevblUowljl38K0 ufyb37vDlVTczZTnAMIATchFbyOo45lMZoTjQcyfI4XE34eoqNh9oOWvQ7UiTefcN4Ac PC0PhxnvwV/kcoqEt7VDIV8B64OfjgmxH09Mhw0weJ5Fd4IBoc7Wa4Ve0knIaVz6FDYK 6G3Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mKtra9aZrNULQNPpkP29N8Q36wRmrmZbHv0VheIKHZdWrQudY8g mP8LJwoMJtPJ6WeS6HUM5KDAXGab X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBot9dZGDUy0UVtBfhbF8tItukGsqmDRGFKWome+ePqAaUwwf8y4iZBZxhWwRGNoewF92cEG6gw== X-Received: by 10.223.165.19 with SMTP id i19mr2951888wrb.33.1515017839352; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:17:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([197.101.48.133]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id e20sm3289504wre.6.2018.01.03.14.17.17 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:17:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <2CA973AB-B583-4F4F-A0B3-0FE347A672BD@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20180103215332.5fe6b77a@digimed.co.uk> <1D3E7160-0997-4DE5-9EB9-DC3C2EDC62BE@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <9c550e9a-ad38-0e6c-f32e-9dc0b6466794@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 00:11:49 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 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 In-Reply-To: <1D3E7160-0997-4DE5-9EB9-DC3C2EDC62BE@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dfe9cd13-8c99-42bb-a5d8-b9c7579bce9d X-Archives-Hash: b2dcd50f4ba4dd0e30373a7fe48f8fe6 On 04/01/2018 00:07, Stroller wrote: > >> On 3 Jan 2018, at 21:53, Neil Bothwick 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 -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com