Bug 12345 – Unmerging kernel sources

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Thomee Wright 2002-12-17 16:25:04 UTC]

The new versions of portage now default to automatically unmerging older
versions of a package when things are upgraded.  This behavior is not
necessarily appropriate when installing new kernel sources, though.  The old
sources shouldn't be removed until the kernel they built is no longer being used.

A somewhat more challenging issue is that packages which depend on the kernel,
like alsa or the NVidia drivers, don't need to be re-emerged when the kernel
sources are updated, but rather when a new kernel is acually built.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-12-17 17:31:01 UTC]

what kernels are you experiencing this problem with ?
it wouldnt be a problem if they were SLOT-ed correctly

[Comment 2 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-12-17 17:37:43 UTC]

*adds slot to kernels

[Comment 3 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-12-17 17:40:49 UTC]

hmm... maybe... I don't like this, cuz this can cause a person's kernel source
dir to grow unmanagebly huge really really fast

lost linux-2.4.20-lolo-r1_pre5 # du -s /usr/src
2466230 /usr/src

And that is with portage auto-cleaning things...  Meh, i guess we just have to
trust users to rm -rf /usr/src/linux-blah when they are done with it...

[Comment 4 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-12-17 18:15:29 UTC]

ok, done.

[Comment 5 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2014-06-26 06:59:57 UTC]

I renamed the variable to README_GENTOO_SUFFIX to make it less generic.