Re: [gentoo-user] re: emerge --depclean [gentoo-sources]

["Randolph Maaßen" <r.maassen60@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2013/9/21 Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>:
> emerge --depclean wants to remove the gentoo-sources for my old kernel
> [sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13] which I want to hang on to for the
> time being.
>
> Is there a way to instruct emerge not to remove them?
>
> emerge(1)
> Packages that are part of the world set will always be kept. They can be
> manually added to this  set  with  emerge --noreplace <atom>.
>
> If I understood the instruction above, 'emerge --noreplace
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' should have added 'gentoo-sources' to
> /var/lib/portage/world_sets, which it didn't seem to do.

No, this it the wrong file. the file /var/lib/portage/world is THE
world set, it contains all packages you emerged manually (and with
--noreplace).
The file /var/lib/portage/world_sets can contain the name of other
sets that should be included into the world.

>
> box0 src # emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13
> !!! 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' is not a valid package atom.
> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
>
>
> box0=; ls -l `pwd`/world*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root portage 920 Sep 20 20:45 /var/lib/portage/world
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root portage   0 Sep 20 20:45 /var/lib/portage/world_sets
>
> Or is it a matter of defining something like this:
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/usr/src/linux-3.8.13-gentoo"
> in /etc/portage/make.conf?
>
>
> Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>



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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Randolph Maaßen