Dale,
On Thursday, 2021-07-01 01:59:57 -0500, you wrote:
> ...
>
> The subject line pretty much describes this. How does one manage the
> system.map file in /boot? Is it needed? Should it be updated with each
> kernel? I tend to keep 2 to 3 kernels installed.
Same here. And whenever I configure a new kernel my kernel managing
script makes sure both, the kernel I'm currenty running on and the one
just configured are in "@world". That way "emerge --depclean" will nev-
er remove a kernel package.
When I finally decide to explicitly remove a kernel my kernel managing
script will basically execute this before calling "grub-mkconfig":
# Argument 1 must contain slot number of kernel to be removed.
emerge --deselect --quiet sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:$1
rm -fr /lib/modules/$1-gentoo /boot/*-$1-gentoo{,.old} \
/usr/src/linux-$1-gentoo
This is stuff I somewhere picked up from the Gentoo Handbook when I did
my first Gentoo install.
> ...
> Should I version the
> system.map file the same as kernels?
Not sure about that. Mine ARE versioned. That's probably what "grub-
mkconfig" is doing by default.
Sincerely,
Rainer
