> -----Original Message----- > From: Andres Becerra Sandoval [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 January 2006 10:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions > > > On 1/19/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:05:20 +0100, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > >
[snip...] > > Why remove the current version only to reinstall it? > > emerge --prune gentoo-sources will remove all but the latest. > > > > It's also faster to remove the directories from /usr/src > before unmerging > > them. You'll need to remove them manually anyway as unmerge > -C/P doesn't > > remove the compiled files. Also it doesn't remove the source distpackages, or the lib/modules for the particular kernel version. There may be a script lurking somewhere in the forums, but I remove these manually out of habit. -- Regards, Mick -- [email protected] mailing list
