Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 20:41:25 schrieb Simon: The main problem is i really lack diskspace (on my eeepc 4gb) and I can't install that kernel (not even install and uninstall it). Besides, I would really like if emerge/portage could leave my kernel alone, completely. Is the eeepc your

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:18:58 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: The main problem is i really lack diskspace (on my eeepc 4gb) and I can't install that kernel (not even install and uninstall it). Besides, I would really like if emerge/portage could leave my kernel alone, completely. Is the

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-28 Thread Simon
How about specified sys-kernel/gentoo-sources instead of vanilla in package.provided. If the nvidia ebuild depends on gentoo-sources and not vanilla-sources...then naturally it will pull in gentoo no matter how many vanilla kernels you have. I haven't tested any of that but it seems logical

[gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-27 Thread Simon
Hi there, long ago i installed a 2.6.24 kernel in /usr/src manually. I had added the line sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24 (without quotes) to the file /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. There is no kernel in /var/lib/portage/world... This may be related to the fact i recently moved my

Re: [gentoo-user] provided kernel

2008-12-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Simon wrote: Hi there, long ago i installed a 2.6.24 kernel in /usr/src manually. I had added the line sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.24 (without quotes) to the file /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. There is no kernel in /var/lib/portage/world... This may be related to the fact i