Re: [gentoo-user] Puzzled about --depclean

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I just ran "emerge -p --depclean" and the only thing it wants to remove
>> > is
>> > gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12.  So my system's pretty clean, but I'm quite
>> > puzzled with this result.
>> >
>> > I have 5 versions of gentoo-sources installed, and the one it wants to
>> > ditch
>> > is the one I'm actually using.  I can understand why it wouldn't care
>> > about
>> > that, but why not:
>> >    2.6.31-r10 which is no longer in the tree
>> >    any of the others, which are marked in exactly the same way as the
>> >       victim it picked?  Some are older, and some are newer than this
>> >       victim.  What gives?
>> >
>> > I'm just wondering about how --depclean picked on this one of the five?
>>
>>
>> Look in /var/lib/portage/world and see if you are protecting the
>> versions you think it should be cleaning but it isn't.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Mark
>>
> I looked there, and there's
>   sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> so I would expect them all to be protected.  Why the exception?
> ++ kevin
>

No, that means only the latest one is protected.

One of my machines has

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.33

which implies the latest is protected as well as 2.6.33. If I ran
emerge -C gentoo-sources those two at least would be saved.

If you specifically want to protect a kernel, maybe you require it for
driver reasons or something, you can add a line like the above by hand
or you can use the instructions on the screen when running emerge -p
--depclean to add it.

Hope this helps,
Mark