[gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up
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 Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee 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 Hi Matt, The answer to why this happens is in a thread from earlier today when this happened to mark Knecht. Summary: This is a new thing that --depclean does. Just remerge the sources you want, put them in world if you want to guarantee that --depclean won't be overly helpful in future. As for the sources themselves, they are only needed to build a kernel or out-of-tree modules (ati drivers, ndiswrapper, vmware-modules, etc etc). You already have a working kernel, so you are safe. Gentoo does not require anything in /usr/src - unlike most binary distros it doesn't keep kernel headers there, they are somewhere else and completely unaffected by the presence or absence of full sources. If you do need to remerge the original sources, you can grab the original ebuild from the gentoo attic. Google will find it for you -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:42:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee 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 Hi Matt, The answer to why this happens is in a thread from earlier today when this happened to mark Knecht. Summary: This is a new thing that --depclean does. Just remerge the sources you want, put them in world if you want to guarantee that --depclean won't be overly helpful in future. As for the sources themselves, they are only needed to build a kernel or out-of-tree modules (ati drivers, ndiswrapper, vmware-modules, etc etc). You already have a working kernel, so you are safe. Gentoo does not require anything in /usr/src - unlike most binary distros it doesn't keep kernel headers there, they are somewhere else and completely unaffected by the presence or absence of full sources. If you do need to remerge the original sources, you can grab the original ebuild from the gentoo attic. Google will find it for you -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Thanks for the info. I'm really not in the mood for building a new kernel. And I'll pay more attention in future, to --depclean and the list. Too much work at the moment Saludos Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up
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
Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: 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. You can't put version numbers into the world file, but you can use SLOTs indicated with a colon. Kernel packages are always SLOTted, each version get's it's own SLOT. That is so that you can have as many versions installed as you want. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
