How to stop depclean from cleaning vanilla-sources ?

pa4wdh · l33t Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 812

Hi All,

Every once in a while i run emerge -p --depclean to see what might be removed from my system to keep it clean. I use vanilla-sources for my kernel, and because of the nature of the package (slotted) i always have multiple versions installed.
Now depclean always only wants to keep the latest version, but besides that i usually agree with depclean's plans for removals (for the other packages).

My question is: Is there a way to prevent depclean from removing any version of vanilla sources without constantly updating world to include the new version ?

I have one idea about this, but i don't know if it's possible this way:
As far as i can see, ebuilds seem to be shell scripts which define a few specified functions. If that is true, that isn't is possible to create some kind of "virtual" which (by means of scripting) depends on all installed versions ? The source for this information could be the /usr/src/linux directory or /var/db/pkg. As far as i understand depclean's functioning, a package depending on the vanilla-sources will effectively stop it from removing it.
Is this worth a try ?

Best regards,
pa4wdh

PS: Same problem is valid for GCC 3.x and 4.x, but since that doesn't change that much it's easier to handle :-)

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zyko · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject:

I think you can add multiple (slotted) versions to your world file, like so:

pa4wdh · l33t Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 812

HI Zyko,

Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of the solution you gave, but that's exactly what i'm trying to avoid doing :-)

I don't want to edit the world file, i just want every version (or slot) that has been installed to stay there until i unmerge it.

Unfortunately i'm not familiar with writing ebuilds to see if my proposed solution would work. I know the information should be here somewhere, so ill just search for it :-)

Best regards,
pa4wdh
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USE="-war" emerge --newuse @world

My shared code repository: https://code.pa4wdh.nl.eu.org
Music, Free as in Freedom: https://www.jamendo.com