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Bug 23885 - unclear definition of AUTOCLEAN
Summary: unclear definition of AUTOCLEAN
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2003-07-02 15:09 UTC by Peter Ruskin
Modified: 2004-11-13 21:48 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Ruskin 2003-07-02 15:09:21 UTC 
After building a new kernel I need to remerge lm_sensors and  
nvidia-kernel, so I tell emerge AUTOCLEAN="no" to keep the existing 
instances for other kernel intact.

This has stopped working.  Even with AUTOCLEAN="no" in /etc/make.conf, 
all previous versions are "Safely unmerged" after the merge.

This means I can't boot into any kernel other that the last one used and 
have a working system, without having to remerge lm_sensors and  
nvidia-kernel.

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22_pre2-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo   
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses
nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang
readline arts tetex aalib svga ggi tcltk java guile mysql postgres X sdl gpm
tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl
mozilla cdr acpi doc dvd innodb maildir mbox moznocompose moznoirc moznomail
nocardbus odbc samba scanner sse tiff usb wmf -crypt -gnome"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe -O3 "
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe -O3 "
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
AUTOCLEAN="no"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache notitles"
Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-01-08 12:54:18 UTC 
the kernel module issue has been resolved using a different way in 2.0.50 (/lib/modules won't be deleted on cleans/unmerges). Also from what I can tell AUTOCLEAN only triggers the cleaning of other packages than currently being merged. Nick, can you elaborate ?
Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-11-13 21:48:46 UTC 
AUTOCLEAN is now always performed, the variable isn't used anymore.