Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

[Jack]

On 2020.06.05 16:24, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:02, Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.
> >
> > Jack
>
> I would keep GCC 9 for now. I've run into a few issues with GCC 10
> compiling various packages so I have kept GCC 9 on my system. There's
> not some serious detriment to not using GCC 10 for 99% of people.
> Most distros still use an older version.
>
> Also, have you considered trying Dracut for initramfs generation? I
> don't know how well it works with genkernel as I don't use that (I
> manually configure my kernels).

Thanks for the suggestion, and I do still have gcc-9.3 installed.   
However, when gcc-10 was marked stable, I worked on recompiling almost  
my entire system with it.  I have very few packages that simply can't  
deal with it yet, and I suspect a few of those are not sufficiently  
supported at all that they have a good chance of getting tree-cleaned.   
Sort of parallel to getting rid of python-2.

I used to do all my kernel configuration and setup manually on my old  
box (with legacy grub).  When I upgraded to my new PC with a Ryzen 5  
2600 and started using lvm, I ended up needing an initramfs, and  
managed to get genkernel working for me, without TOO much of an  
effort.  Right now, it's run genkernel, and when I'm happy, run  
grub-mkconfig, and it works.  If I ever go to a manually crafted  
grub.cfg, I might consider a different way of creating my intramfs, but  
I'd rather not introduce yet another moving part if I don't really need  
to.

Anyway, I'm writing this running my shiny new 5.7 kernel,  having run  
genkernel with --no-gpg.  I had not explicitly turned that on; I  
suppose it's just the default, unless I missed something in the config  
file.