Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:35 +0200 Coert Waagmeesterlgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: On 02/23/2012 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: The only thing I can currently think of is maybe the

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:16:41 +0200 Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Not doing it this way means a very high likelyhood of the machine not booting with every single upgrade, plus the huge amount of work it takes to go through everything in menuconfig. indeed,

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 23, 2012 12:25 pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just don't do what I did earlier: sit in Joburg and configure the firewall on a Xen host in deepest darkest Africa where there's no tarred roads to get to it. How did you get the server there? Flown it in? I've seen the roads in Africa

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: SNIP Is there a way to import old config files with newer kernel sources? I tried it once by simply copying .config into the newer src dir, but I read somewhere