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From: "Petteri Räty" <petteri.raty@××××××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Upgrading Kernel hardened-sources-2.6.16-r11 to 2.1.18
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:10:24
Message-Id: 45A3BE23.3030705@saunalahti.fi
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Upgrading Kernel hardened-sources-2.6.16-r11 to 2.1.18 by Kwon
1 Kwon kirjoitti:
2 > Just did the following to upgrade a system that was built about 6-9
3 > months ago:
4 >
5 > emerge --sync && emerge os-headers glibc binutils gcc && emerge
6 > os-headers glibc binutils gcc && emerge -e system && emerge -e system &&
7 > emerge -uD world && emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg world &&
8 > emerge -v depclean &&revdep-rebuild -v && revdep-rebuild –v
9 >
10 > Q1. Can someone please have a look (and perhaps comment) on the above?
11
12 You are unnecessarily polluting your world file. use emerge -1
13 In general that is way too much recompiling to my taste. If you are
14 upgrading your compiler, just following the gcc-upgrade guide should be
15 fine.
16
17 > Q2. Kernel upgraded from hardened-sources-2.6.16-r11 to
18 > hardened-sources-2.1.18 during the above process, can one use the old
19 > .config file to compile the new kernel?
20
21 You need to use make oldconfig with the old .config file.
22
23 Regards,
24 Petteri

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