From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20629 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 13:37:18 -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 31678 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 13:37:18 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) In-Reply-To: <200310041341.10139.stuart@gentoo.org> References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <200310040356.47985.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <200310041329.36931.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <200310041341.10139.stuart@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <67D8C8CF-F66F-11D7-B976-000A95795F3E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:33:57 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: 10b868b0-cca3-42c4-a3a7-84fbcefc18e1 X-Archives-Hash: 289cfeace388e5922838095b748ead51 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list