On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >> What do you mean by sane depclean? Are there any problems with >> --depclean that I am not aware of? > > emerge -p --depclean > > generates dire warnings. I keep a previous version of the kernel > (gentoo-sources) as a fallback, and --depclean wants to remove that, > which I want to keep.
Quoted below is a solution that was posted to this list a few years ago, I use it for exactly that situation: to prevent kernels from ever getting depcleaned. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Mike Kazantsev <mk.frag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So, my question: Is there a way to tell depclean to never remove *any* >> version of gentoo-sources? > > That's where portage-2.2 sets find another use. > Just add following set to /usr/share/portage/config/sets.conf: > > [kernels] > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet > world-candidate = False > files = /usr/src > > And append "@kernels" line to /var/lib/portage/world_sets > Now any installed (even with -1) kernel should be safe from ravenous > depclean. Hope that helps!
