From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S0UQ5-0003Un-9q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:52:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0B9BE0B99; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.bushveldgrain.co.za (mail.bushveldgrain.co.za [196.25.181.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C487FE0B29 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail.bushveldgrain.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bushveldgrain.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09EAF660CF for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:45 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com Received: from mail.bushveldgrain.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.bushveldgrain.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ycjo9U5N5ohL for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [196.1.1.163] (unknown [196.1.1.163]) by mail.bushveldgrain.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731FD66087 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <4F45FE1F.9070006@waagmeester.co.za> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200 From: Coert Waagmeester User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120118 Thunderbird/9.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness References: <4F45F490.2020504@waagmeester.co.za> <201202230826.00642.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201202230826.00642.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 77c32e3c-4d9f-48e0-b4ff-b4641680133c X-Archives-Hash: 0ea9675f13f8acf1a91214c77be33ef1 On 02/23/2012 10:25 AM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 08:10:56 Coert Waagmeester wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Usually on gentoo when gentoo-sources gets updated, updating the kernel >> went as follows: >> >> eselect kernel set {new kernel} >> cd /usr/src/linux >> make menuconfig >> >> and then there was a totally clean config which I would then customize >> for the specific setup. >> >> On one box I am currently running 3.1.6-gentoo >> When I start make menuconfig for 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 it would appear as if >> it got my current config from somewhere, eg local version. >> >> Is this a new feature? >> >> To make sure of this I unistalled all gentoo-sources pkgs, deleted >> everything /usr/src/linux* >> installed the latest gentoo-sources >> yet it still seems to find the current config somewhere >> >> Anyway, just wondering,, >> >> Regards, >> Coert > > Where does the /usr/src/linux symlink point to? Here's mine: > > $ ls -la /usr/src/ > total 20 > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 4 11:40 . > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 27 09:01 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 16 2010 .keep > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 4 11:40 linux -> /usr/src/linux-3.2.1- > gentoo-r2 > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Oct 16 16:40 linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 8 21:35 linux-3.0.6-gentoo > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 18 13:31 linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2 Here is mine: # ls -l /usr/src/ total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 23 10:02 linux -> linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 23 10:23 linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2 and I made sure that its a completely clean install of gentoo-sources The only thing I can currently think of is maybe the kernel config files in /boot? # ls -l /boot/ total 13760 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2336082 Jan 5 12:03 System.map-3.1.6-gentoo-cj-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2422336 Feb 23 10:23 System.map-3.2.1-gentoo-r2-cj-2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 9 13:38 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68292 Jan 5 12:03 config-3.1.6-gentoo-cj-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70578 Feb 23 10:23 config-3.2.1-gentoo-r2-cj-2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 23 10:48 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4563312 Jan 5 12:03 vmlinuz-3.1.6-gentoo-cj-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4608752 Feb 23 10:23 vmlinuz-3.2.1-gentoo-r2-cj-2 Rgds, Coert