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On 10/28/05, Digby Tarvin <digbyt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:45:49AM +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:43:07 +0100 Digby Tarvin <digbyt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> > > The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level |
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> > > code up to date on a gentoo system - but now that I have had my |
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> > > system installed for 6-7 months it has occured to me that my |
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> > > kernel is no longer current, and I havn't found anything in the |
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> > > handbook suggesting how this should be approached. |
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> > > |
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> > > Is there a recommended procedure that someone can point me to? |
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> > |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml |
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> Thanks. Not sure why I didn't stumble across then when searching |
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> the documentation on the web site, but once I eventually got |
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> emerge to install the new kernel, the messages left by emerge |
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> led did lead me to that file: |
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> * If you are upgrading from a previous kernel, you may be interested |
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> * in the following documents: |
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> * - General upgrade guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml |
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> * - 2.4 to 2.6 migration guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml |
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> but of course I already had to have an idea on how to upgrade before seeing |
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> that :-/. Thanks to all that offered advice... |
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> Also, my initial |
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> emerge --update gentoo-sources |
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> came back doing nothing - it just indicated that there were no packages |
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> to update. |
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> I tried again with just |
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> emerge gentoo-sources |
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> and that went ahead and installed a new kernel source tree in /usr/src. |
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> So now I just need to reproduce my kernel config and then I am |
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> ready to try going from linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 to linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10. |
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> I gather one cannot just copy the .config file for this much of a jump, |
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> so I guess the best thing to do is a simultaneous 'make menuconfig' in both |
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> old and new kernel using two different windows so that I can be sure |
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> to copy each of the current settings across. |
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make oldconfig will copy all the old configurations, and prompt you |
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for the configurations that don't exist in the old config file. |
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