From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QENkm-0007rF-Aj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:31:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 161C81C101; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:29:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2291C101 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb7 with SMTP id 7so1375572qwb.40 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:29:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RSCfMRr8T/qeg4DniHKnku9thhMLhA9GpL7/44BFxXg=; b=Kx8dfDPjz+OnTrtWTQpbPWJD34HyJKsSUMhMQUwnciYOvRShi6llYq7KXMEt4PY/OM Kd7s5pNIdIova21jfJyp51a1ngK49GQWJoULjirnka3UgqoHbjjIMTxslT32X6aeGGRD eDGZ345l9S0Vwp3kd6co+q/WP6U5n3Zfn1urQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f/QshG/F/evayuw9Okg12rpP7hYL+P9dsHVn4jb3kcMOUzpe0nOJWzuUnBOUa0eOWE V8XPSaijAIsVWd1E404JhrX4k2MELiMXMVVuTn8TaoBb9VhXZpzOkOscSo/iZMDPnOOA d3efDgLSk+tAJN98HlTb8OSqH9GjjkLx1XVUw= 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 Received: by 10.224.140.136 with SMTP id i8mr2771378qau.23.1303745387345; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.205.71 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:29:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110425150321.GA4077@acm.acm> References: <20110422180508.GA17715@acm.acm> <201104241644.32602.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110425121153.GB4594@acm.acm> <201104251512.25621.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110425150321.GA4077@acm.acm> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:29:47 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!] From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ddb916e705b2f668ff41614805237dd2 On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my > new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources. > It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime. =C2=A0Do I have to d= o > recursive copying or directory renaming to achiev this? > Run something like emerge --noreplace =3Dgentoo-sources-2.6.38-r1 to add the kernel you want to keep to your world file, or just add the kernel with it's specific revision to the world file manually. At that point emerge won't delete it and you won't get any messages until portage maintainers remove it from portage. HTH, Mark