On Monday 17 Nov 2003 00:46, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Stephen Turner wrote: > > would you mind educating a poor soul? why do you need to do these > > and what was he wanting? i ask cause im going to be reinstalling > > gentoo soon and may need to know myself :) > > I just have two Gentoo kernels on my system: gaming-sources > (2.4.20-gaming-r3) and vanilla-sources (2.4.22-2.4.22). If I do a > genkernel on 2.4.22, I have to remerge nvidia-kernel, which takes the > liberty of removing the files from the previous emerge when it's > done, thus removing itself from 2.4.20. A 'touch' on the 2.4.20 > nvidia module changes the timestamp, so emerge won't remove it. It's > kind of an ugly hack, I wish there was some other way to take care of > this.
Daniel has allegedly fixed this long-standing problem at last: "The fix should show up in Portage 2.0.49-r17". See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477 Peter -- ====================================================================== Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre8-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ ====================================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
