Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Pandu Poluan wrote:
> 
> On Feb 25, 2012 9:16 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> ---->8snip
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>>
>>
>> That is true BUT the docs are for 100% certainty.  Well, 99% at least.
>> They almost always have the safest way to do anything but not
>> necessarily the most used way.  There are lots of things I do
>> differently from the docs and my system generally works fine, except for
>> the little roaches that scurry about from time to time.
>>
>> If you want a drop dead, almost as sure as the Sun comes up in the East
>> approach, go by the docs.  If you want to save some time for most
>> general usage, do it the way us goofy geeks do it.  Some of us know some
>> neat shortcuts.
>>
>> Dale
>>
> 
> I tend to do an 'eyeball dryrun' first: start tmux, create 2 'windows',
> do make menuconfig of the older kernel in the first window, and start
> make menuconfig in the second. I quickly compare the menu structure of
> both to see where the implicit oldconfig might choke, do some research
> if necessary, and make notes.
> 
> Then, I exit the newer menuconfig and cp the older .config to the newer
> src directory, and start make menuconfig again. I keep comparing what
> I'm doing against what I've done in window #1.
> 
> Never had a kernel upgrade failure this way -- touch wood!
> 
> Rgds,
> 


I have had only one doing it the quick way.  When I did have a failure
tho, I did like you do but in two windows of Konsole.  One window on top
and one on bottom.  Just went section by section.  Over the past 3 or so
years, no problems and it only takes about 20 seconds.  One thing tho,
if it fails, it generally tells you it made a mess.  Just delete the new
config and start from scratch like above.

Dale

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