Thanks

Dave

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 05:31 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:09:54 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > > It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't
> > > watch out, without something deciding to install a non-existent
> > > kernel and deleting the live one :-)
> >
> >   I have my own hand-coded script that runs "emerge --pretend
> > --depclean" and tweaks/filters the output into another script called
> > "cleanscript". I've set it to filter out "gentoo-sources".  I then
> > inspect "cleanscript" before running it.  And, oh yeah, depclean wants
> > to remove nano.  I had to "emerge -n nano" to protect it.
>
> You can add kernel sources to a set so they are never depcleaned
>
> % cat sets.conf
> [kernels]
> class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
> world-candidate = False
> files = /usr/src
>
> Then emerge -n @kernels
>
> I do the same with gcc so I can keep the previous version
>
> [gcc]
> class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
> world-candidate = False
> files = /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
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