Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 04/01/2018 00:02, Stroller wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Jan 2018, at 21:55, Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>>  
>> What would be nice, would be if "emerge --depclean" had the smarts to
>> recognise that /usr/src/linux pointed to the current active kernel, and
>> didn't wipe that when it cleaned out everything else :-) That way, at
>> most you could have the current and latest kernel sources available
>> pretty easily.
> 
> You've jogged a long-hibernating memory - the accidental removal of the current sources tree in an accident like this may be the exact reason why I refuse to allow kernel versions to be actively emerged.

I think that's a mountain and a molehill. You still have the image in
/boot, config in /boot or in the running kernel, libs in /lib/modules
and the bootloader is intact.

Delete the sources?
- Re-emerge them. 90 seconds.
- Re-compile using existing config. 20 minutes

So deleting the sources for the running kernel is a doh! moment. But no
biggie, and certainly not cause for changing your routine (all in my own
not at all humble opinion, of course)

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com