Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Unfortunately, this seems to be the "standard" way to do this. Once you
build and install a new kernel, you must rebuild all the existing deps
such as the above - ok thats fine, but my beef is that emerge uninstalls
the modules built into the old kernel when it builds for the new one,
leaving the old kernel crippled unless you remember to manually protect
the modules.

this something truly useful that genkernel could address.

Reading my previous email, it appears I imply that genkernel is of
little use.  Quite the opposite, as well as new users, it has some good
uses on first install to set up unfamiliar hardware.  Once running, you
can analyse it (lsmod etc) and set up a tuned manual configuration. 
Hence why I am persevering with it.

BillK

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:43, Sami Näätänen wrote:
> On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:38, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > because a number of other packages want to see /usr/src/linux for the
> > running kernel.  lm-sensors, vmware, nvidia, ...
> 

> In my opinion those packages shouldn't use /usr/src/linux, but to let 
> the user decide the kernel, which the package should be build against.
> 



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