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On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 20:01, Michael Lang wrote: |
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> It seems that by default, Kernel 2.4.18 is being built and yet everyone |
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> seems to be advising to downgrade to 2.4.17. I personally think that as |
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> you go to release 1.0, we should have instructions for building the latest |
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> *stable* release of the kernel rather than grabbing the latest experimental |
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> kernel (or whatever y'all call 2.4.18)...athough I am not so sure about: |
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> ebuild /usr/portage/sys-kernel/linux-source/linux-sources-2.4.17.rc5.ebuild |
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> merge |
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# emerge =sys-kernel/linux-sources-2.4.17-r5 |
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would be the better/shorter form. |
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> ...as a cmd to document in install instructs. Maybe a better option is to |
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> roll up the first four commands from Code Listing 24 (First code listing of |
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> "Installing the Kernel and Sys logger") into a script that queries the |
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> directories under sys-kernel and prompts user to pick which version to ebuild. |
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> Any thoughts? |
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> Michael |
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> "All things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -- Albert Einstein |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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