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* Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
  @ 2014-10-26 19:41 99%     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
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From: Canek Peláez Valdés @ 2014-10-26 19:41 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Giuseppe Pappalardo
<me@giuseppepappalardo.eu> wrote:
> On 10/26/2014 08:23 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>
>>
>> As to how do I maintain them, I wrote a little utility that I've been
>> using from the last year or so:
>>
>> https://github.com/canek-pelaez/kerninst
>>
>> With it, after I install a new kernel using the normal portage
>> procedure, I just do:
>>
>> eselect kernel set <new-version>
>> kerninst
>>
>> And that's it. Be aware that you need to provide your own kernel configuration.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
> How does this differs from just enabling the "symlink" USE flag in
> vanilla-sources?

AFAIU, the symlink USE flag just updates the /usr/src/linux link
automatically at install time (although I have never used it).

kerninst configures (using a user-provided .config file), compiles,
and installs the kernel in the correct location (/boot if using GRUB2,
a more complex location if using Gummiboot), and then it updates the
configuration of the boot manager (either GRUB2 or Gummiboot).

If you set the symlink USE flag, then using kerninst is even easier,
since you don't neet to eselect the new kernel.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México


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