Hi, Mick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to > > > remove the older 2.6 python package. > > I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funnily enough, > > it ran to completion without manual intervention. :-) I'd like to > > run --depclean, but it's threatening to remove my 2.6.31-r6 kernel > > sources, which correspond to my working kernel. What's the easiest > > way to protect these from --depclean? > Aha! That's why I said first look at what it wants to remove - you > don't want to cripple your system. In this case of course it won't > cripple anything, because it won't remove the kernel image from /boot/ > If you look in /usr/src/linux/ you will see a number of kernel sources > listed in there. If you've run update world there should be a more > up-to-date kernel awaiting for you to configure and compile it. Do > that first; copy the necessary files into /boot; configure grub.conf to > boot with you latest kernel; and after you boot into it and check that > all is good you can allow -- depclean to remove older kernel source > files. Yes, I've got new kernel sources, and yesterday and today I've spent about 5 hours head-banging to get a working kernel. (I've managed it, thankfully.) But the new kernel's X-windows isn't filling my 1920x1080 shiny new monitor like the old kernel did. I've still got some fiddling to do. Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources. It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime. Do I have to do recursive copying or directory renaming to achiev this? As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) as contrasted with the 128 characters which were optimum on an old fashioned CRT? > PS. You may need to manually remove older source files left in > /usr/src/linux/ when depclean completes its job. OK. I can manage that. > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
