Remove the date.....so it becomes /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware then it applies to all of them and not the specified version.
Hope that helps ________________________________________ From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2024 12:17 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs. Is there any graceful way to handle the elimination of unwanted linux-firmware blobs when doing an update? I believe I understand the process as outlined at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Linux_firmware: 1. install/upgrade sys-kernel/linux-firmware 2. edit /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-ddmmyyyy 3. re-emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware with the savedcofnig USE flag I've tried that a few times, but it's rather annoying to have to do that every time linux-firmware gets updated. AFAICT, the list of three or four blobs that I actually need on a specific machine never changes. It seems like there ought to be a way to configure that required firmware list and have the emerge -u "just work", but I can't find it. Have I missed something? Yes, I know... Disk space is cheap. Premature optimization ... etc. It still annoys me. -- Grant
