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From: Wol's lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:57:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66343a56-5e4a-fba0-e1bc-e91f8459e240@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <908e7bdd-bb03-2e45-ccd1-42f0f42ffc0e@gmail.com>

On 30/12/17 18:43, Jalus Bilieyich wrote:
> Recently there was a kernel update and I don't want to reconfigure it
> from scratch. In the official documentation, it told me to move the old
> .config into the new kernel source tree and type
> make oldconfig
> 
> This is where I'm confused; which .config file (/proc/config.gz or
> /boot/config) and where in the kernel source tree do I put this file in.
> 
> 
/usr/src/linux/.config

Cheers,
Wol


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-30 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-30 18:43 [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion Jalus Bilieyich
2017-12-30 18:57 ` Wol's lists [this message]
2017-12-30 18:58 ` Andrew Barchuk
2017-12-30 19:11 ` Mick
2017-12-30 19:43   ` Wol's lists
2017-12-30 21:14     ` Jalus Bilieyich
2017-12-30 21:57 ` Alan McKinnon

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