Am Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:00:49 -0700
schrieb Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>:

> On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > 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!
> 
> I've never seen this before, either. Thanks for the tip, Marc.

You're welcome :) . I only remembered it because I was in exactly the same
situation, trying to get genkernel to not overwrite my kernel config. I
remember being annoyed that genkernel didn't have a --no-oldconfig command
line option. I'm surprised it still doesn't. After all, several other options
have corresponding --no-* variants, like "--[no-]mrproper". Oh, well.

[snip]

Happy to help (hey, that acronymises to HTH, too!)
-- 
Marc Joliet