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

2012-02-25 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 25, 2012 9:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 8snip That is true BUT the docs are for 100% certainty. Well, 99% at least. They almost always have the safest way to do anything but not necessarily the most used way.

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

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:17:34AM +, 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 kernel config files in /boot? I'd say it's more likely to be getting it from /proc/config.gz. But why start

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

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:08:22PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:35 +0200 Coert Waagmeester lgro...@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

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

2012-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From what I've read of the docs, make oldconfig is the dangerous part that should be avoided

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

2012-02-24 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:02:38 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make menuconfig. Menuconfig

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

2012-02-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From what I've read of the docs, make oldconfig is the dangerous part

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

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:02:38PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From what I've read of the

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

2012-02-24 Thread Dale
ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:02:38PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From

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

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 9:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 8snip That is true BUT the docs are for 100% certainty. Well, 99% at least. They almost always have the safest way to do anything but not necessarily the most used way. There are lots of things I do differently from the docs

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Usually on gentoo when gentoo-sources gets updated, updating the kernel went as follows: eselect kernel set {new kernel} cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig and then there was a totally clean config which I would then customize for the specific setup. On one box I am currently

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

2012-02-23 Thread Mick
On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 08:10:56 Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Usually on gentoo when gentoo-sources gets updated, updating the kernel went as follows: eselect kernel set {new kernel} cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig and then there was a totally clean config which I would then

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

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/23/2012 10:25 AM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 08:10:56 Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Usually on gentoo when gentoo-sources gets updated, updating the kernel went as follows: eselect kernel set {new kernel} cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig and then there was a totally

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

2012-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: The only thing I can currently think of is maybe the kernel config files in /boot? I'd say it's more likely to be getting it from /proc/config.gz. But why start with a clean config each time? That means you have plenty of

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

2012-02-23 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 10:10 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Usually on gentoo when gentoo-sources gets updated, updating the kernel went as follows: eselect kernel set {new kernel} cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make menuconfig ... BillK

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

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
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 kernel config files in /boot? I'd say it's more likely to be getting it from /proc/config.gz. But why start with a clean config each

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

2012-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:35 +0200 Coert Waagmeester lgro...@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 kernel config files in /boot? I'd say