Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

[n952162]

On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote:
> n952162 wrote:
>> Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new
>> kernel, as in:
>>
>>        https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade
>>
>> I currently have this situation:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020 x86_64
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>> $ eselect kernel list
>> Available kernel symlink targets:
>>    [1]   linux-5.4.72-gentoo
>>    [2]   linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1
>>    [3]   linux-5.4.92-gentoo
>>
>> If an update requires additional steps, shouldn't that have appeared
>> in the news?
>>
>>
>
> It depends I think.  I say think because there may be a binary kernel
> available which will upgrade itself.  I seem to recall reading about it
> on a mailing list somewhere.  I have no experience with it tho.  That
> said, if you use the old method, you have to upgrade the kernel
> yourself.  There are scripts you can use to help automate it a good bit
> but some of us still do it the manual way.  When you do updates, emerge
> will pull in the new sources but the rest is up to you.  I suspect most
> that do it the old way, copy .config over to the new kernel directory,
> run make oldconfig and answer the questions, compile the new kernel,
> copy it to /boot using the right method which there is a few of and then
> configure your bootloader if needed.  The link you posted explains this
> in more detail, and may be more complete too.
>
> I'm trying to remember what that binary kernel thing is called.  I just
> skimmed the messages so it could be something else or not even in the
> tree yet.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

Ah, maybe I have a theory what's going on ... maybe there's no news that
it's time to upgrade the kernel, because it's not meant that the kernel
necessarily needs to be upgraded ... except that it seems that the
virtualbox-modules package might have a (unfortunate) dependency on that...