From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21594 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 13:11:11 -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 24506 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 13:11:10 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: Stuart Herbert , Jason Stubbs , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:10:57 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310041329.36931.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <200310041341.10139.stuart@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310041341.10139.stuart@gentoo.org> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310041311.08085.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: d8707121-daa0-4b43-897d-d95ded61bfd2 X-Archives-Hash: f51fa3b05b95aafc8c21044893259226 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 October 2003 12:40 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: > The day that Gentoo *forces* me to use a kernel auto-magically configured > and compiled for me through an 'emerge' is the day that Gentoo joins my > RedHat CDs in the bin. You could always 'emerge linux-src' if Portage were to add the -src suffix = as=20 I described. > > Just because I'm emerged any particular set of kernel sources does *not* > mean that a) I want that kernel adding to lilo/grub yet, I don't think it should modify the configurations, only a few symlinks that= =20 you can ignore if you choose to. > and b) that my box > has everything else in place to boot and run that kernel. If you'd be compiling the kernel for another system, you could have Portage= =20 build only a GRP. As for local dependencies, the development-sources alread= y=20 depend on the module-init-tools needed to run them even though the sources= =20 don't actually need it. It might also be worth noting that often the time=20 between a system update and etc-update, your system could in theory be=20 unbootable were there to be a power failure. =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fsblZl/BHdU+lYMRAuSaAJ9QLk7wuPkb21HqBZvPGw7DnHyBigCeJ6FP lH08hf05LQ+46CMqLsDqRb0=3D =3DLOnQ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list