From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] One more note on Install Instructions
Date: 16 Mar 2002 20:29:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1016303393.11041.2.camel@nosferatu.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020416135248.00b2e6d8@mindspring.com>
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 20:01, Michael Lang wrote:
> It seems that by default, Kernel 2.4.18 is being built and yet everyone
> seems to be advising to downgrade to 2.4.17. I personally think that as
> you go to release 1.0, we should have instructions for building the latest
> *stable* release of the kernel rather than grabbing the latest experimental
> kernel (or whatever y'all call 2.4.18)...athough I am not so sure about:
>
> ebuild /usr/portage/sys-kernel/linux-source/linux-sources-2.4.17.rc5.ebuild
> merge
# emerge =sys-kernel/linux-sources-2.4.17-r5
would be the better/shorter form.
>
> ...as a cmd to document in install instructs. Maybe a better option is to
> roll up the first four commands from Code Listing 24 (First code listing of
> "Installing the Kernel and Sys logger") into a script that queries the
> directories under sys-kernel and prompts user to pick which version to ebuild.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Michael
>
> "All things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -- Albert Einstein
>
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-16 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-16 18:01 [gentoo-dev] One more note on Install Instructions Michael Lang
2002-03-16 18:29 ` Martin Schlemmer [this message]
2002-03-16 20:31 ` Daniel Robbins
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