On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:27:28 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > If I understood the instruction above, 'emerge --noreplace > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' should have added 'gentoo-sources' to > > /var/lib/portage/world_sets, which it didn't seem to do. > > > > box0 src # emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13 > > !!! 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13' is not a valid package atom. > > !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. > > emerge --noreplace =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13
You should also note, that you actually can depclean the sources. The unmerge process leaves any temporary files from the compilation process intact (unless you manually delete them). If you later reemerge that version you'll start right of where you were.
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