Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-21 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 21 June 2019 04:08:03 BST Dale wrote: > >> The reason I have to add --exclude gentoo-sources to --depclean is so that >> it won't remove kernels I still have installed and may even be using or >> keeping as a fall back. > Depclean won't remove your kernels - only

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 21 June 2019 04:08:03 BST Dale wrote: > The reason I have to add --exclude gentoo-sources to --depclean is so that > it won't remove kernels I still have installed and may even be using or > keeping as a fall back. Depclean won't remove your kernels - only the sources to build them

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 6/20/19 11:10 AM, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:18:22 +0200, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/19 11:10 AM, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Kai Peter
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Dale
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Kai Peter
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. -- Sent with eQmail-1.10.1 beta - a fork of djb's famous qmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/19 12:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:16:21 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: I was thinking about this for a bit, and thought that maybe adding the slot to the package in /var/lib/portage/world would work. Every release has a separate slot, so this would never offer

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:16:21 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > I was thinking about this for a bit, and thought that maybe adding the > slot to the package in /var/lib/portage/world would work. Every release has a separate slot, so this would never offer updates, no matter how minor. However, you may

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:51:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > > When I /am/ ready to upgrade to a newer Minor version, I will just > > update my /etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources file. > I admit, it seems to be a cleaner way of doing it than what I'm doing.  > I may even give that a try but for me, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/19/19 9:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> It seems you like that way and it works best for your situation and that >> is what matters. > > Yep.  I'm happy enough, for now.  We'll see if I change my opinion in > the future. > >> Sometimes there are many ways to do things but some

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/19/19 9:51 PM, Dale wrote: It seems you like that way and it works best for your situation and that is what matters. Yep. I'm happy enough, for now. We'll see if I change my opinion in the future. Sometimes there are many ways to do things but some just work better in certain

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/19/19 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> Honestly, I'm not sure there is a easy way to do this. > > I'm actually happy with what Vadim recommended. > > It keeps me within the minor (?) version of the kernel that I want to > stay within, while still allowing updates to new micro (?)

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/19/19 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: Honestly, I'm not sure there is a easy way to do this. I'm actually happy with what Vadim recommended. It keeps me within the minor (?) version of the kernel that I want to stay within, while still allowing updates to new micro (?) versions. Is Major, Minor,

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 6/19/19 11:27 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: >> On 6/19/19 11:37 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: >>> echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> >>> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels >> >> Perfect! >> >> Thank you.  :-) >> >> I did name the file

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/19/19 11:27 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: On 6/19/19 11:37 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels Perfect! Thank you.  :-) I did name the file /etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources as I like to name the file after

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/19/19 11:37 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels Perfect! Thank you. :-) I did name the file /etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources as I like to name the file after the package that it's meant to effect.

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels

[gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-19 Thread Grant Taylor
Is there a way that I can prevent emerge from wanting to update (download / install) gentoo-sources for kernel versions beyond a specified value? I want to stick within a specific version of the kernel / gentoo-sources because of dependencies on Open vSwitch. I'm okay receiving updates to