Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:56:31 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>:
> > - so my next upgrade would "force" me into deciding going way down > > (probably a bad idea) or up into unknown territory (and this showed: > > can also be a problem). Or I can stay with 4.6 until depclean > > removed it for good (which will, by the way, remove the files > > from /usr/src). > > Depclean won't remove it if you add it to world. Multi-slot packages ARE removed by depclean except the last stable version - which jumped backwards for me because I used an ~arch kernel that was removed from portage. The following happened: # emerge -DNua world Reinstalled 4.4 for me. Problem here: I didn't exactly distinguish that 4.4.something is not 4.6.something in the result list. So I continued with: # emerge --depclean -a # cd /usr/src/linux && make oldconfig && ... the usual stuff Wow, that went fast. Then, I realized why: I just depcleaned my 4.6 and 4.4 compile objects were still there, I tried to reinstall 4.6, it failed - of course: The package is no longer in portage. I thought: Okay, there's probably a reason, let's get to 4.7.2 then - what should possibly go wrong? It's not 4.7.0 and I still have 4.6 in /boot. Yeah, what should go wrong... I shouldn't have asked. TL;DR: I restored from backup. This must be coincidence. I wanted to go to stable kernel at next opportunity. But forward in version, not backward. ;-) But let's get back to the point: Depclean does remove multi-slotted kernel sources. It does it with every multislot package except there's an explicit slot dependency or you explicitly mention the slot in the world file. Since I cannot remember such a surprise-removal* happened anytime before and put me in such a situation, this was completely new to me. (10+ years of Gentoo usage) Lesson learned: Keep your eyes open. Maybe I put the kernel slot into my world file, with the opposite downside this has. (note to myself) *: This is subjective, I know. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
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