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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> [snip] |
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>>> I might also add, genkernel is stable and has been for ages. It's been |
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>>> a while since I tried it but the last time I did, it failed miserably. |
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>>> It 'claimed' everything worked fine but when I booted, it failed. I got |
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>>> the old blinky keyboard lights treatment. :/ |
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>>> Just because something isn't marked stable doesn't mean it doesn't work. |
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>>> I would guess that half the stuff on my system as I type, is not |
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>>> stable. That would include all of KDE, portage and related tools plus |
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>>> no telling how many other deps that got pulled in. |
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>> Oh, certainly. Sometimes, I have to unmask packages (or versions |
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>> thereof) because I know of upstream fixes I want or need. |
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>> As a general rule, though, I avoid doing it unless I have specific, |
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>> strong and compelling need. |
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> This could be one of those times. The trouble I ran into became clear |
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> later on. I had tried to build a init thingy that was built into the |
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> kernel. It didn't work right so I left it behind. Thing is, I forgot |
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> to disable that in the kernel config. So, I was building a kernel with |
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> a broken init thingy and telling grub to use the init thingy built by |
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> dracut. Can you imagine the fist fight that was being had? |
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I followed the thread; there's very little on this list I don't read, |
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or at least skim. :) |
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> I type all that to say this, unmask dracut, run dracut, add the init |
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> thingy to your grub line. I'm more sure that it will work than I am of |
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> genkernel. |
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I'm pretty stubborn, and I tend to follow a depth-first search |
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algorithm while debugging, backtracking only when I hit a dead end. It |
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can take me longer than, say, a distro-hopper, but I like that I come |
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out with a better understanding of whatever it is I've been banging my |
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head on. |
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The genkernel docs say that if static versions of the requisite |
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packages don't exist, it will build them. If adding the 'static' USE |
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flags under /etc/portage/package.use fixes this use case of genkernel, |
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then I've got a valid bug to report, and the thing can get fixed. |
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