Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo as server and desktop

[syscon edm <syscon780@gmail.com>]

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The only way you will make it work, is if you have a minimum one working
backup.
You upgrade a backup first, check if everything is working correctly then
you update the main system.
Have been doing it for over 20-years.

It is not only the kernel that you have to worry about.

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syscon

On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM Egoitz Aurrekoetxea <egoitz@sarenet.es>
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> Hi mates,
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> I would love using Gentoo as Desktop and Server OS. I used sometime ago,
> but it caused me the fact of not being able to upgrade my systems weekly or
> daily, because sometimes you needed to upgrade the kernel and I was not
> really sure that the config entered for the kernel (loaded through
> Genkernel but with menuconfig and there load .config file) that was written
> with previous kernel version building was going to not cause something
> weird or bad functioning of newer built kernels with that config.
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> Does exist a way... where you could emerge world, update all the system,
> finally end up by upgrading the kernel and being sure that the old .config
> you used through menuconfig (or by any other way of importing) would not
> select erroneous parameters in newer kernels?. I though there were some...
> lint options for the .cofig?. I think I have used them sometime ago....
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> So for sumarizing, how do you manage for keep your systems up-to-date
> using Gentoo?. How do you manage to keep your kernel upgraded?.
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> Cheers,
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