From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BD51381F3 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 138B8E0CC7; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BB3E09C2 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FFF12029E for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:03:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:03:20 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo Message-ID: <20130820110320.6b328728@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <5211226F.2000000@libertytrek.org> <201308182208.43780.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <521142A7.1020702@coolmail.se> <52121D0F.5030004@libertytrek.org> <521243C2.404@thegeezer.net> <20130819232019.149767a4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2-71-gace330 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/+nU=Kc0F=7a7DHe7Pi+YCY2"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 6dd21cca-8140-44f9-b4e8-218d974c83e2 X-Archives-Hash: c09cedd616c8998a66bb33cdc0626eac --Sig_/+nU=Kc0F=7a7DHe7Pi+YCY2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:44:41 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > The kernel build system can also build the initramfs if you give it > > the location of the config file. That way the initramfs is built for > > each kernel, using the currently installed versions of the various > > tools. =20 >=20 > Yes, it's a little bit easier then manually adding a new initramfs. > But as I update userspace more frequently then the kernel, that would > still lead to a version discrepency. > I need to always remember to rebuild the initramfs when a part of > userspace that sits in the initramfs is updated. An automatic option > there would be usefull. > If it were included into the kernel, I would need to rebuild the kernel > after every update. Just redoing the initramfs is less of a waste of > CPU. Not really, because make is intelligent enough to no bother recompiling anything for which the source has not changed. --=20 Neil Bothwick Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them. --Sig_/+nU=Kc0F=7a7DHe7Pi+YCY2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlITPugACgkQum4al0N1GQM99gCfbWX5tbWdOc0waC5gz7DDFiZ4 Rx4Ani4aIIyU8l3lJwMGpEbT5oP7l0PY =Ll56 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/+nU=Kc0F=7a7DHe7Pi+YCY2--