Works better if you use the right names. emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r3
or whatever.
-Heschi
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From: "Frank Hellmuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why keeping old kernel sources?
> On Monday 23 June 2003 15:14, MAL wrote:
> > Frank Hellmuth wrote:
> > > Is it safe to do a
> > >
> > > #emerge -C linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r4
> >
> > They aren't cleaned, as often previous sources are needed still, such as
> > when you want to compile a module for a previous version.
> >
> > Even when you run the above command, the directories will remain in
> > /usr/src, because when you compiled your kernel, you generate additional
> > files that weren't installed by the emerge. So _after_ unmerging, you
> > can rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r{3,4}
>
> Thanks for the information, now that I've tried it, I found that there are
no
> ebuilds for r3 and r4 in the portage tree anymore. So is there any way to
> unmerge them using portage-tools? Or do I just have to remove the
> directories?
>
> Hmmm --- esp. for something important like the kernel sources
> it leaves a bad taste: install via emerge, uninstall via adding ebuilds
manually to
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY or removing directories...
>
> Frank
>
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