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 A11CB13877A for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E90B1E08A6; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3719FE0837 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F04340139 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:56:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.685 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.685 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.315, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.668, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Z66F4lU-D5Hx for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E9CC340099 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XDH3u-00027q-RD for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:56:14 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:56:14 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:56:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: --exclude gentoo-sources Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <53DBCA3E.8030204@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1) X-Archives-Salt: c0e32192-8a91-4e4d-ad8f-7f3fe1f526ae X-Archives-Hash: 09aeffd1cb90f318cddfb4cb80b546ea Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > I know I can use this option to protect kernel sources I > > want to keep around, from removal, via depclean. > put gentoo-sources in world, you then always get the latest. > test each one , decide which are worth keeping. Let's say for argument > that is 3.15.4, so: > emerge -n =gentoo-sources-3.15.4 > All versions not listed thusly are subject to depcleaning I found this make.conf idea, whilst googling: # Keeps depclean from removing gentoo-sources EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources" Unfortunately, I had already manually fixed the problem and ran depclean. So I'll just have to wait for a real test, but for now it passed the 'emerge --depclean -p' test..... Have a good weekend, one and all! thx, James