Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, July 3, 2021 1:54:13 AM CEST Dale wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 6/30/21 11:59 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-02 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 6/30/21 11:59 PM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> 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.  I tend to keep 2 that >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-02 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/30/21 11:59 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, 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.  I tend to keep 2 that I know are stable and one testing. 

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread antlists
On 01/07/2021 15:41, Dale wrote: I do copy mine manually.  It's how it was done when I first started using Gentoo and I just stuck with it, it works.  It's just one additional file. I copied my kernels manually to start with. Then I discovered "make install". (and "make modules_install").

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Neil, On Thursday, 2021-07-01 15:28:51 +0100, you wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 13:16:29 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 09:41:27 -0500, Dale wrote: > > grub-mkconfig only reads the files, it is the make install step of > > kernel installation that takes care of copying the files to /boot > > with the correct version numbers. ISTR Dale prefers to copy the > > kernel files manually, which is why

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 13:16:29 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > >> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 13:16:29 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread Dale
tastytea wrote: > On 2021-07-01 13:16+0200 Dr Rainer Woitok > wrote: > >> Dale, >> >> On Thursday, 2021-07-01 01:59:57 -0500, you wrote: >> >>> ... >>>  Should I version the >>> system.map file the same as kernels? >> Not sure about that. Mine ARE

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread tastytea
On 2021-07-01 13:16+0200 Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Dale, > > On Thursday, 2021-07-01 01:59:57 -0500, you wrote: > > > ... > >  Should I version the > > system.map file the same as kernels? > > Not sure about that. Mine ARE versioned. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
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

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread William Kenworthy
There is a lot online - basically its optional and needed just in case (!) and should be versioned like its matching kernel and initrd. BillK one of many refs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28936630/what-is-the-need-of-having-both-system-map-file-and-proc-kallsyms On 1/7/21 2:59 pm, Dale