Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-17 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 17/10/19 12:57, Dale wrote: >> I couldn't figure out why cleaning out old cruft that shouldn't change >> anything would trigger updates but it did. My mask file is short so >> almost all changes were to the package.keyword file. I could understand >> if I removed something

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-17 Thread Wols Lists
On 17/10/19 12:57, Dale wrote: > I couldn't figure out why cleaning out old cruft that shouldn't change > anything would trigger updates but it did. My mask file is short so > almost all changes were to the package.keyword file. I could understand > if I removed something and it wanted to

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-17 Thread Dale
John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:23:07 -0400, > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> [1 ] >> On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:28:18 -0400, John Covici wrote: >> Can you post an example output from emerge, the eix entry from that package and the entry in @world? >>> In the case I see before me,

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-17 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:23:07 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:28:18 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > Can you post an example output from emerge, the eix entry from that > > > package and the entry in @world? > > In the case I see before me, depclean wants to

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:28:18 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > Can you post an example output from emerge, the eix entry from that > > package and the entry in @world? > In the case I see before me, depclean wants to unmerge > dev-util/glib-utils -- its not in my world file, but if I do > qdepends

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-16 Thread John Covici
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 03:33:29 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:41:14 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > Thanks much. Now, what about depclean deleting packages where I have > > the name in my world file, but no version numbers or anything, it > > seems to want to

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 16 October 2019 09:33:29 CEST, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:41:14 -0400, John Covici wrote: > >> Thanks much. Now, what about depclean deleting packages where I have >> the name in my world file, but no version numbers or anything, it >> seems to want to delete what it maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:41:14 -0400, John Covici wrote: > Thanks much. Now, what about depclean deleting packages where I have > the name in my world file, but no version numbers or anything, it > seems to want to delete what it maybe thinks are older versions even > if the "older" version is the

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:19:45 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:53:10 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > Is @kernels in /var/lib/portage/world_sets? > > > > > > I tested this and I found that the "emerge -n @kernels" did not add > > > @kernels to

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:53:10 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > Is @kernels in /var/lib/portage/world_sets? > > > > I tested this and I found that the "emerge -n @kernels" did not add > > @kernels to /var/lib/portage/world_sets. However, if I manually > > edited world_sets and added @kernels then

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread Manuel McLure
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 1:54 PM John Covici wrote: > Do I just add a line saying @kernels to that file or is there some > other syntax? > I just added a line with "@kernels" to that file. -- Manuel A. McLure WW1FA ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:46:34 -0400, Manuel McLure wrote: > > [1 ] > [2 ] > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:05 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Is @kernels in /var/lib/portage/world_sets? > > I tested this and I found that the "emerge -n @kernels" did not add @kernels > to

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:05:03 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:49:26 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > > > Put this in /etc/portage/sets.conf > > > > > > > > > > [kernels] > > > > > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet > > > > > world-candidate = False > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:01:49 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I tested this and I found that the "emerge -n @kernels" did not add > > @kernels to /var/lib/portage/world_sets. However, if I manually edited > > world_sets and added @kernels then this works as expected.  > Depending on the options used in

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread Dale
Manuel McLure wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:05 AM Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > Is @kernels in /var/lib/portage/world_sets? > > > I tested this and I found that the "emerge -n @kernels" did not add > @kernels to /var/lib/portage/world_sets. However, if I

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread Manuel McLure
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:05 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > Is @kernels in /var/lib/portage/world_sets? > I tested this and I found that the "emerge -n @kernels" did not add @kernels to /var/lib/portage/world_sets. However, if I manually edited world_sets and added @kernels then this works as

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:49:26 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > Put this in /etc/portage/sets.conf > > > > > > > > [kernels] > > > > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet > > > > world-candidate = False > > > > files = /usr/src > > > > > > > > Then "emerge -n @kernels" > > > > > > > > Now

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 04:13:33 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 03:55:02 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > Put this in /etc/portage/sets.conf > > > > > > [kernels] > > > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet > > > world-candidate = False > > > files = /usr/src > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 03:55:02 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > Put this in /etc/portage/sets.conf > > > > [kernels] > > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet > > world-candidate = False > > files = /usr/src > > > > Then "emerge -n @kernels" > > > > Now depclean won't try to remove any kernels, or

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-15 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 04:03:53 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 03:21:52 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > Thanks, I do need the current sources, lots of packages want to check > > them and the linux directory entry points to the sources, packages are > > always looking in

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-14 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 04:03:53 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 03:21:52 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > Thanks, I do need the current sources, lots of packages want to check > > them and the linux directory entry points to the sources, packages are > > always looking in

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 14 October 2019 08:21:52 BST John Covici wrote: > Thanks, I do need the current sources, lots of packages want to check > them and the linux directory entry points to the sources, packages are > always looking in there when I emerge them. But they're looking for configuration values,

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 03:21:52 -0400, John Covici wrote: > Thanks, I do need the current sources, lots of packages want to check > them and the linux directory entry points to the sources, packages are > always looking in there when I emerge them. Put this in /etc/portage/sets.conf [kernels]

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-14 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:06:54 -0400, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 05:04, John Covici wrote: > > > > Hi. After a long time, I got my system into a state where I could > > finally try to do emerge depclean. What a mess! It would have > > deleted source for my running kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-13 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 05:04, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. After a long time, I got my system into a state where I could > finally try to do emerge depclean. What a mess! It would have > deleted source for my running kernel, version of postgresql I am using > and many other things I am currently

[gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-13 Thread John Covici
Hi. After a long time, I got my system into a state where I could finally try to do emerge depclean. What a mess! It would have deleted source for my running kernel, version of postgresql I am using and many other things I am currently using.Some of them, at least are in my world file. Some