Re: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 04:17:23PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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-ddmm > 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 Save your firmware list in /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware That's it. -- Best regards, Vitaliy Perekhovy signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 04:54:09PM -0400, Jack wrote: > I don't have any such directory. What package does it belong to, or is > it a config setting for portage or another package? Yes, it is a configuration of portage itself. There is an env variable CONFIG_PROTECT that contains a list of directories that portage will protect from automatic modification. Please check this article: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/CONFIG_PROTECT You can query that variable by `portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT'. -- Regards, Vitaliy Perekhovy signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 03:53:35PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I think portage is at fault here - it should retain the older standard > version of /etc/bash/bashrc so that users can resolve the differences > with a 3-way diff. Before replace your old bashrc file, portage place the old one here: /etc/config-archive/etc/bash/bashrc -- Regards, Vitaliy Perekhovy signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -K ignoring new packages
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 05:07:45PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Now that I have my NFS set up (with help - thanks) the next problem is that, > having new packages built by my workstation over NFS, emerge on the tiny box > is ignoring all those new packages. And yes, I have checked that they do > exist, and in the right place: /var/cache/packages/ . > > The man page says that any new package will cause a remerge, so what has > tripped me up this time? > > -- > Regards, > Peter. > > > > Default location for binary packages is /var/cache/binpkgs/ -- Regards, Vitaliy Perekhovy signature.asc Description: PGP signature
