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From: Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:32:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008152032.31357.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100815184506.40e6f57b@marcec.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de>

On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400
> 
> schrieb Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>:
> > Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig
> > command?  I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a
> > different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it
> > would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file. 
> > It may be that I'm just missing it but man pages and Google have not
> > provided a solution.
> 
> Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option:
> 
> # Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel?
> OLDCONFIG="no"
> 
> HTH

It did indeed help.  I was looking for a command line argument.  Didn't even 
think of the config file.  Thank you!

-- 
"It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the 
game even starts." - Addison Walker



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-15 16:15 [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig Daniel D Jones
2010-08-15 16:45 ` Marc Joliet
2010-08-16  0:32   ` Daniel D Jones [this message]
2010-08-16 15:00     ` Bill Longman
2010-08-16 20:46       ` Marc Joliet

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