On Sunday 12 April 2009 21:31:42 Joseph wrote: > I would like to protect the current kernel as well, will statement in > make.conf works? CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/src/linux/*" > > I've not test it yet.
No, that will not work as no existing files are being overwritten. To ensure that a kernel sources are never touched by --declean, add them to world, as in emerge gentoo-sources-2.6.29 If it's already installed but not in world use -1 to tell portage not to go through the install process, but just add it to world. Or just edit the world file by hand. Or you could just let --depclean remove it. Ask yourself this: Once you have built a kernel, installed it, and built all the out-of-tree modules, how often do you go back and use those sources again? For most people the true answer is "very seldom, if ever". /usr/src tends to get very big very quick if not kept under control, each version comes in at about 500M or so. That can fill /usr quite quickly. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
