From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CC31381F3 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:30:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A242E09AD; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f170.google.com (mail-lb0-f170.google.com [209.85.217.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB4FFE0914 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f170.google.com with SMTP id r10so4193416lbi.29 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:30:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rILgZYWy5WWf2oyIp0FxZ/Lo88AsTQrOe+9/2tTzfw8=; b=pql0jlN06UxR7xeJHkibdBwejomynFz+Sf0K9ZV+MO7Xnz0wXpYsAizezDnIOHVImh 0ksaQH2ptAUACvRi+evDgbhQOX1TlmS2WEyVRVK80ZQfAAYZDp0zTm4OhOMt3uQAfV9v ZayHoXc+v+vS9dOdZigDu+jVPpmSTq8dAJmqxuibC8o4Z/MDWw8JXUr0sa5+lhDHxTR9 mLx24htJpGIGPdwnBLYQJxOXioV0a9YMD4I9PeinEXF300QyFQUGPi38eEOw20a6kl/2 oHfiZi+BRSVep0EssPxRgi3mjwoIqKxoTzCajbsKTWbgZvV8zZsvvvUbSq5pQxaiUhna 9QRw== 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 X-Received: by 10.152.5.134 with SMTP id s6mr25256152las.24.1367112621922; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:30:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.26.105 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:30:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130428011949.GA14514@syscon7.inet> References: <20130428011949.GA14514@syscon7.inet> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:30:21 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why my system is keeping old kernel around? From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 3fc66b06-f442-4132-8038-c2d6e5ef6886 X-Archives-Hash: ee8fc50aa89b67cc9da86d2f6744b3e7 On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Joseph wrote: > When I run depclean, it prints out: > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > selected: 3.6.11 protected: none omitted: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 > 3.7.10-r1 > > ll /usr/src/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 26 12:35 linux -> linux-3.6.11-gentoo > > The system is using kernel 3.6.11; so I'll keep it. > But why it tries to keep older kernels: 2.6.31-r6 2.6.36-r5 ? If you ran emerge --depclean, the older kernels are not there; only the files created when you compiled them (*.o, *.ko, vmlinuz, stuff like that). You can rm -rf the old versions safely. Regards. -- Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico