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- Subject: [proaudio] portage want to remove old kernel sources and old external kernel modules
- From: Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:07:28 +0200
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I noticed problems with the way portage is working with the kernel sources
and external modules.
1) "emerge --depclean" want to remove all the old kernel sources an keep only
the most recent version
2) "emerge alsa-driver" or "emerge nvidia" want to remove the old version, even
when it is the same version but compiled for another kernel.
From the gentoo forum
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-610943-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html
1) can be solved by adding something like
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.18-r6
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.19-r5
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.20-r8
into /var/lib/portage/world
2) I don't find any solution with portage. The only way seam to make some
backup of the files, emerge the package, and re-install the old one from the
backup. The main problem I can see with this is in case of major upgrade (gcc
or glibc upgrade). Who know how the version from the old backup will work?
So, a question and a remark:
- Is it some other solutions for those 2 issues?
- Maybe that we must warn about this portage behaviour into the wiki.
Cheers,
Dominique
--
Dominique Michel
Mes 3 projets préférés auxquels je contribue:
* FVWM-Crystal, le bureau basé sur FVWM:
http://fvwm-crystal.org
* AlsaPlayer, le lecteur audio avec contrôle de vitesse en continu:
www.alsaplayer.org
* L'overlay pour la MAO sous gentoo:
http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page