Kai Peter wrote:
> On 2019-06-20 20:10, Dale wrote:
>> Kai Peter wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude
>>>> gentoo-sources
>>>> from things such as --depclean. It's annoying but it's the only way I
>>>> could come up with to do this.
>>>>
>>> You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one time.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I read the man page for this option, I'm not sure how it would help.
>> All that does is prevent it from recording that it is installed in the
>> world file. Since I have -1 set as a default, it does that when I
>> emerge single packages already. If I want to keep it and it not be
>> --depcleaned, then I use -n --select y to add it to the world file.
>> Thing is, some packages require some sort of kernel to be installed as a
>> dependency last I checked.
>>
>> Or am I missing something?
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
> It is just to exclude a gentoo-sources version from depclean. I
> assumed you do something like this:
>
> $> emerge -c --exclude=gentoo-sources:4.14.83
>
> and may be multiple times. With --noreplace the corresponding version
> will be omitted, so a simple 'emerge -c' would be enough.
>
> Anyway, I did struggle with this gentoo-sources thing a long time ago.
> I want to have the latest stable (minor) version (patch) of the
> running kernel installed as well the newest stable one. As long as it
> is not compiled and booted is uses only some disk space. If I have
> compiled the kernel I use e.g. 'emerge --noreplace
> gentoo-sources:4.14.83' to keep it.
>
> To get the latest patch version I have ...package.mask/gentoo-sources.
> For the latest stable sources I remove the file and re-create it
> afterwards. This is done by a cron job automatically. A little bit
> like this ('gentoo-sources' contains: ">=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15")
>
> FN="${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}/etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources"
> emerge -u gentoo-sources
> TMP=`cat $FN`
> rm -f $FN
> emerge -u gentoo-sources
> echo $TMP > $FN
>
> Just my way. To me it is important to have a high level of automation.
> With automation it is unimportant how many gentoo-sources kernels are
> installed. I remove obsolete ones periodically by hand.
>
> Kai
When I do --depclean, I just add --exclude gentoo-sources and it ignores
all versions of it. I only have to type it once that way. I do have a
few versions installed, one running plus a couple backups that are well
tested. At the moment, I have one that I haven't booted yet. I thought
a storm last night might give me that opportunity but the power held up
fine.
It sounds like you do something similar to me but you just automate it
more. Since I do update only a couple times a year at most, it's not a
big deal. I generally only run --depclean after a major KDE upgrade,
about once every 4 to 6 weeks.
Dale
:-) :-)
