On 10/17/07, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have two tiny problems in using portage. > > - How can I get a list of all packages for which there is a newer > version. > emerge --update world doesn't work since it doesn't respect my > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" setting, i.e. it doesn't show new > packages if they are "masked" by the "~x86" keyword.
Actually it does. Updated packages can be a deep dependency, so try emerge --update --deep -a world - Whenever I install a new kernel I have to reinstall all those packages > which generate a kernel module, e.g. nvidia-drivers, openafs-kernel > or virtualbox-modules. > When emerge has installed the kernel module in > /lib/modules/<new-kernel>/... > it removes the corresponding module in > /lib/modules/<old-kernel> > Since I want a fall back possibility I'd like to tell emerge > not to remove the modules for the <old-kernel>. > How can this be done? They are not removed automatically, but can't be used in with kernel. $ ls /lib/modules/ -- Vladimir Rusinov GreenMice Solutions: IT-решения на базе Linux http://greenmice.info/
