From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12404 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Oct 2003 01:52:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19427 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 01:52:35 -0000 From: William Kenworthy Reply-To: billk@iinet.net.au To: Sami =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=E4=E4t=E4nen?= , gentoo-dev List In-Reply-To: <200310050343.49697.sn.ml@bayminer.com> References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <20031004202723.65d7ee16.psycho@rift.ath.cx> <1065310682.18158.4.camel@rattus.localdomain> <200310050343.49697.sn.ml@bayminer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <1065318751.21317.21.camel@rattus.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 09:52:31 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 9a16d753-7188-49c9-b0aa-bd9aab560b17 X-Archives-Hash: a4c909e830449ca2c59ee7226b05d3b0 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. > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list