On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:42:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove > > gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently > > using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is > > the kernel image in /boot sufficient. Do I need to build myself a > > new working kernel before I reboot again? I can't reemerge 2.6.22-r2 > > becuase it's no longer available. Thanks > > Hi Matt, > > The answer to why this happens is in a thread from earlier today when > this happened to mark Knecht. Summary: > > This is a new thing that --depclean does. Just remerge the sources you > want, put them in world if you want to guarantee that --depclean won't > be overly helpful in future. > > As for the sources themselves, they are only needed to build a kernel or > out-of-tree modules (ati drivers, ndiswrapper, vmware-modules, etc > etc). You already have a working kernel, so you are safe. Gentoo does > not require anything in /usr/src - unlike most binary distros it > doesn't keep kernel headers there, they are somewhere else and > completely unaffected by the presence or absence of full sources. > > If you do need to remerge the original sources, you can grab the > original ebuild from the gentoo attic. Google will find it for you > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Thanks for the info. I'm really not in the mood for building a new kernel. And I'll pay more attention in future, to --depclean and the list. Too much work at the moment Saludos Matt
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