Re: [gentoo-dev] One more note on Install Instructions

Re: [gentoo-dev] One more note on Install Instructions

[Martin Schlemmer]

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
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Re: [gentoo-dev] One more note on Install Instructions

[Daniel Robbins]

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 12:01, Michael Lang wrote:
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Michael

I just masked 2.4.18, so this should be fixed in less than half an hour.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

[gentoo-dev] One more note on Install Instructions

[Michael Lang]

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

...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