I found this helpful in managing kernel versions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwvV2wf-Gk0
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 3 Jan 2018, at 22:11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>>> > >>>> $ grep -e source /var/lib/portage/world > >>>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.9.34 > >>> ... > >> > >> I guess this risks that emerge will try to install 4.9.34-r1 during a > future update, but I don't believe I've ever experienced that. > > > > Only if the highest-versioned emerged sources are <4.9.34-r1 > > Yes, in the quoted example above I grepped my world file for sources and > 4.9.34 is currently installed. > > >> > >>> If you do want to use versions, I'd recommend using ~ rather than = to > >>> pick up patch-level updates. > >> > >> What do you mean by this exactly, please? > > > > =4.9.34 selects that exact version and only that specific version > > ~4.9.34 select that version and also 4.9.34-r1. There might need to be a > > * on the end of ~4.9.34, I don;t quite recall. Answer in portage's man > pages > > I thought it was something like that, but searched `man portage` for "~" > more than one way, and didn't find reference to this. Am I blind? > > Stroller. > > >
