>> >> One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge >> >> hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to: >> > >> > How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?) >> >> I just mean 2.6.25-r13 is the latest amd64 version so it should be installed. >> >> > Are you running ~ or stable? >> >> Stable. >> >> >> >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: >> >> >> >> sys-kernel/hardened-sources >> >> selected: 2.6.25-r13 >> >> protected: none >> >> omitted: 2.6.27-r3 >> >> >> >> If I do that, emerge world just wants to emerge it again. Does anyone >> >> know how to fix this? >> > >> > If you remove it, what does emerge -pvt say? >> >> This is right after running emerge --depclean which removed >> hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13: >> >> # emerge -pvt hardened-sources >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 [2.6.27-r3] >> USE="-build -symlink" 0 kB > > So the question is, basically, why do you have 2.6.27-r3 installed? It > is ~amd64. Basically the problem is the following: > > a) emerge -pvt hardened-sources wants to emerge the "best" version > available, which with your amd64 keyword is 2.6.25-r13. For some > reason you have 2.6.27-r3 installed. Now, in many other packages, > this will just cause the package to downgrade. The kernel, however, > have each version individually slotted, so the downgrade will NOT > remove the version that is, strictly speaking, not allowed to be on > your system. > b) emerge --depclean defaults to behaving to unmerging all but the > highest version number in the kernel. > > You have three choices that I can think of. > > i) explicitly specify the version of hardened-sources you want to keep > in your world file, that way --depclean will not remove any kernel > versions that is specified in world. > ii) unmerge 2.6.27-r3, that way 2.6.25-r13 becomes the most recent > version and will not be unmerged
That got it, thank you very much. - Grant > iii) keyword 2.6.27-r3, that way the "best" available version becomes > 2.6.27-r3 and emerge -pvt will not tell you to merge 2.6.25-r13
