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

[Stroller <root@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 4 Oct 2003, at 1:40 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote:

> On Saturday 04 October 2003 5:29 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:
>> A lot of work would need to be done to do this successfully, though; 
>> maybe
>> something that should be left for portage v3...
>>
>> Jason
>
> 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, and b) that my box 
> has
> everything else in place to boot and run that kernel.
>
> It's not broken, so please don't try to fix it.

Seconded.

Genkernel did not work for me the one & only time I tried it. The 
kernel panicked on boot-up, and I had to wait an hour & a half longer 
whilst I recompiled it by hand. I copied .config from the old linux 
directory, `make menuconfig`d, saved & exited, `make dep && make clean 
bzImage modules modules_install, just like I always did (without even 
knowing what the `make dep` does, even) and the new kernel worked 
perfectly.

I am sure I am doing a huge injustice to the author of genkernel, but 
it's more hassle for me to find out what I did wrong than to continue 
to do things manually.

Please can we keep things simple..? Gentoo is such a great 
distribution, complexity has the potential to diminish it from its 
current (IMO) near perfection. Surely there are far better things for 
inclusion in Portage3. Iis there any timeframe on that, BTW..?

Stroller.



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