On Tuesday 24 June 2003 02:35, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> Frank Hellmuth wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I noticed today that I have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3, -r4 and -r5 sources
> > on my hard disk, working and backup kernel are both r5.
> > [...]
> I hope that makes things clearer for you.
Thanks to all
Frank Hellmuth wrote:
Hi!
I noticed today that I have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3, -r4 and -r5 sources
on my hard disk, working and backup kernel are both r5.
Every time a kernel source package is emerged portage makes a record of
all files and dirs placed on your system. When upgrading the kernel
s
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:06, Heschi Kreinick wrote:
> It's out of the portage tree, but for many reasons, which you can probably
> guess a few of, it's a good idea to keep around information about the
> package, and your system, as they were when you installed it. If you look
> in /var/db/pkg, yo
It's out of the portage tree, but for many reasons, which you can probably
guess a few of, it's a good idea to keep around information about the
package, and your system, as they were when you installed it. If you look in
/var/db/pkg, you'll see that every package you saves a whole bunch of
informa
On Monday 23 June 2003 19:25, Heschi Kreinick wrote:
> Works better if you use the right names. emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r3
> or whatever.
> -Heschi
Thanks, it worked. I just looked into /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/
and found just
ChangeLog gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r10.ebuild Man
On Monday 23 June 2003 19:16, Ohad Lutzky wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:37:21PM +0200, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote:
> > did you do 'make mrproper' between the compiles when it didn't work? it
> > cleans up so it should be like a newly emerged tree.
>
> By the way, what's the difference between th
Works better if you use the right names. emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r3
or whatever.
-Heschi
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From: "Frank Hellmuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why keeping old
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:37:21PM +0200, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote:
> did you do 'make mrproper' between the compiles when it didn't work? it
> cleans up so it should be like a newly emerged tree.
By the way, what's the difference between that and "make distclean"?
--
Tactless
"If it wasn't for
On Monday 23 June 2003 15:14, MAL wrote:
> Frank Hellmuth wrote:
> > Is it safe to do a
> >
> > #emerge -C linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r4
>
> They aren't cleaned, as often previous sources are needed still, such as
> when you want to compile a module for a previous version.
>
> Even
did you do 'make mrproper' between the compiles when it didn't work? it
cleans up so it should be like a newly emerged tree.
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:02, daniel wrote:
> On June 23, 2003 08:53 am, Frank Hellmuth wrote:
> > I noticed today that I have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3, -r4 and -r5 sources
>
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:02:32AM -0400, daniel wrote:
> On June 23, 2003 08:53 am, Frank Hellmuth wrote:
> > I noticed today that I have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3, -r4 and -r5 sources
> > on my hard disk, working and backup kernel are both r5.
> >
> > or are the old versions (or at least the headers
On June 23, 2003 08:53 am, Frank Hellmuth wrote:
> I noticed today that I have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3, -r4 and -r5 sources
> on my hard disk, working and backup kernel are both r5.
>
> or are the old versions (or at least the headers) still needed?
>
> If it's OK to clean them, why doesn't portage
Frank Hellmuth wrote:
Hi!
I noticed today that I have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3, -r4 and -r5 sources
on my hard disk, working and backup kernel are both r5.
#emerge clean
tells me there are no outdated packages on my system. I understand
that the kernel sources are an important part of the system, b
Hi!
I noticed today that I have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r3, -r4 and -r5 sources
on my hard disk, working and backup kernel are both r5.
#emerge clean
tells me there are no outdated packages on my system. I understand
that the kernel sources are an important part of the system, but since
I slowly run
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