automatically unmerge older package release?

plm · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2002 Posts: 11

When I merge, say some-pkg-1.1-r3, the previous release remains installed too. Even using pkg-clean, supposed to find all doubly merged packages, doesn't find it (it only finds and unmerges double major releases).

Is there some flag to emerge that unmerges all older releases automatically after it has merged a newer version (--update)?

fghellar · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 6:19 am Post subject:

I don't know if it can currently be done automatically, but, after installing the newer version, you can remove all previous versions by doing

tkdack · Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2002 4:19 am Post subject:

IIRC with the new versions of portage you can do: