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Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> posted 479E0BB2.3020102@g.o, excerpted |
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below, on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:06:58 +0100: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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>> Mainstream kernel's default make install uses /sbin/installkernel if it |
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>> exists, so I've been using it, invoking the kernel's make install from |
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>> my own kernel scripts. installkernel invokes mkboot... |
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> We (the docs team) have never suggested out users to run `make install` |
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> for various reasons, see bug 183346 (and the linked gentoo-doc thread) |
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> for details. |
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Thanks. I sort of knew that, but some of us first got comfortable |
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installing kernels on other distributions, and brought our scripts and |
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habits with us, changing them only enough to work in their new habitat. |
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=8^) |
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Here, I've never used the Gentoo kernel packages, simply because I've |
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never needed to, because I already had a system that worked for me -- |
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downloading, verifying, configuring, compiling and installing the kernel |
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direct off of kernel.org, with my own site-specific patches. There's |
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probably a significant number of others doing similar things, and if I |
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were to guess, I'd say a fair share of those that do are probably running |
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professional and therefore production systems, simply because that's the |
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sort that's likely to /have/ such customized solutions -- likely in some |
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cases even designed specifically so the same scripts can be used on |
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multiple distributions. |
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As caster pointed out, however, just removing the package from system |
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doesn't unmerge it, and if people run --depclean without --ask or -- |
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pretend first, well... Maybe they'll learn to do so, next time! =8^) |
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So yeah, I'd say a warning is warranted, but after that just do it. |
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Surely some will complain, but it's not like we can be there constantly |
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holding their hands. Gentoo makes a very deliberate point of expecting |
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its users to be grownups in that way, and I'm glad it does! =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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