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corporate_gadfly
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 Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 1:11 am Post subject: How to make a package protected? |
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Here's my situation. When I execute, the following command:
| Code: | diem sys-kernel # emerge -cp
>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
selected: 2.4.19-r7
protected: 2.4.19-r5 2.4.19-r9
omitted: none
>>> Packages in red are slated for removal.
>>> Packages in green will not be removed.
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I wish to keep 2.4.19-r7. I could care less about 2.4.19-r5. So, the question is, "How do I make 2.4.19-r7 protected so that my protected list now reads 2.4.19-r7 2.4.19-r9?"
emerge version is 2.0.37
Thanks in advance. |
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puddpunk
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| Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 2:06 am Post subject: Re: How to make a package protected? |
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| corporate_gadfly wrote: | Here's my situation. When I execute, the following command:
| Code: | diem sys-kernel # emerge -cp
>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
selected: 2.4.19-r7
protected: 2.4.19-r5 2.4.19-r9
omitted: none
>>> Packages in red are slated for removal.
>>> Packages in green will not be removed.
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I wish to keep 2.4.19-r7. I could care less about 2.4.19-r5. So, the question is, "How do I make 2.4.19-r7 protected so that my protected list now reads 2.4.19-r7 2.4.19-r9?"
emerge version is 2.0.37
Thanks in advance. |
What Portage is trying to tell you, is this:
"You have 3 versions of a package, r5,7,9. Something is depending on r5, so i need to keep that (protected), and r9 is the newest package so i'll keep that too(protected). Since by starting me you told me to clean out unnescary packages (emerge -c) , i'll kill r7 (slated) because it doesnt have much use."
You could try manually removing packages instead of using portages logic. In any case, you should just be able to copy your config file from the r7 dir to the r9 dir in /usr/src, change the symlink and let portage nuke r7 (Remeber that an r? appended to a package means a change in the ebuild, not the package).
Sorry i couldn't answer your question directly but i hope i've helped. |
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iKiddo
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| Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:00 am Post subject: Re: How to make a package protected? |
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| Quote: | | (Remeber that an r? appended to a package means a change in the ebuild, not the package). |
But r9 actually changes the package in this case, right? Wasn't it the r9 where we actually get to have a real 2.4.19 kernel, instead of the patched 2.4.18 ? Or am I confused?
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corporate_gadfly
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| Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: How to make a package protected? |
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| puddpunk wrote: | What Portage is trying to tell you, is this:
"You have 3 versions of a package, r5,7,9. Something is depending on r5, so i need to keep that (protected), and r9 is the newest package so i'll keep that too(protected). Since by starting me you told me to clean out unnescary packages (emerge -c) , i'll kill r7 (slated) because it doesnt have much use."
You could try manually removing packages instead of using portages logic. In any case, you should just be able to copy your config file from the r7 dir to the r9 dir in /usr/src, change the symlink and let portage nuke r7 (Remeber that an r? appended to a package means a change in the ebuild, not the package).
Sorry i couldn't answer your question directly but i hope i've helped. |
Hi and thanks for your reply. Except that I don't want to go to -r9 yet. I am running xfs and the xfs sources are not present in -r9, so I have to stay at -r7. "emerge -cp" is an easy way of cleaning up after package updates. If I have to manually keep removing duplicate packages then the convenience factor goes out the door.
So for now, unless someone has an easy solution to make -r7 protected (in my case), I will copy and/or rename my -r7 directory and move the /usr/src/linux symlink to it and let emerge nuke what it thinks of -r7. |
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: How to make a package protected? |
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You can pin a version of a package using the world file (/var/cache/edb/world), with something like this:
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emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9
echo "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7" >> /var/cache/edb/world
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This will prevent an "emerge -pu world" updating the gentoo-sources package.
NB. To be clean, you actually need to edit /var/cache/edb/world and change the line that says "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" to "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r7", but the echo above will also work since it is added to the bottom of the world file.
| corporate_gadfly wrote: | ...
Hi and thanks for your reply. Except that I don't want to go to -r9 yet. I am running xfs and the xfs sources are not present in -r9, so I have to stay at -r7. "emerge -cp" is an easy way of cleaning up after package updates. If I have to manually keep removing duplicate packages then the convenience factor goes out the door.
So for now, unless someone has an easy solution to make -r7 protected (in my case), I will copy and/or rename my -r7 directory and move the /usr/src/linux symlink to it and let emerge nuke what it thinks of -r7. |
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marty
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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(from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml)
Note: A world update also performs a system update automatically. Core packages cannot be pinned using the world file method as the current Portage profile will always override it.
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So; how can I manually pin "core" packages if not by the world file method?
Also; where does this Portage system package profile exist?
If someone could point me to the developer documentation for the portage system, that might be of some use.
Thanks in advance... |
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