On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove > gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently using. > Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is the kernel image > in /boot sufficient. Do I need to build myself a new working kernel before I > reboot again? I can't reemerge 2.6.22-r2 becuase it's no longer available. > Thanks > Matt > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Dr. Matthew R. Lee
As Alan said, I came across this earlier today. In my case gentoo-sources was the only think in the --depclean list so I didn't let emerge remove it but had I been presented with a longer list I could have easily missed it. To fix it, or be safe for the future when you are tired and not paying much attention, you can add lines by hand in /var/lib/portage/world sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.24-r7 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:2.6.24-r8 Note the use of the colon instead of the dash. Don't ask me why but that's what works. With that I now have two kernels protected from this problem and can still, I believe, do an emerge -C on a specific kernel that I might want to get rid of in the future. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
