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
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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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