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 B11231381F3 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2E35E0D4A; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:11:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A034FE0D3C for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.135] (helo=smtp4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBklx-0005Hd-Ug for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:10:53 +0200 Received: from 54698b76.cm-12-2c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([84.105.139.118] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBklx-0004HV-Kr for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:10:53 +0200 Received: from www.antarean.org (net.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.13]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2F84C for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:10:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 83.80.30.114 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:10:21 +0200 Message-ID: <3b25885ef537f466ddee4beafbec6879.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <20130820110320.6b328728@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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> <20130820110320.6b328728@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:10:21 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 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: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: --- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -3.7 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.797 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 5967d3c3-07fd-41ef-aeee-89cb36fc39ca X-Archives-Hash: e8763fd6c07db806d3b43dbb7c53b1b2 On Tue, August 20, 2013 12:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. >> >> 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 kerne= l >> 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. True, but why recompile the kernel just to redo the initramfs? As mentioned, I don't update/recompile the kernel as often. "genkernel" puts the initramfs where it needs to be, kernel-make doesn't. -- Joost