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Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml |
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Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about |
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it a few times. |
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At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion |
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of the symlink follows. |
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It appears you are expected to change the symlink to the newly |
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installed sources. |
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But then it says: |
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4. Updating the /usr/src/linux symbolic link |
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"Gentoo requires that the /usr/src/linux symbolic link points to the |
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sources of the kernel you are running." |
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So if gentoo `requires' the symlink to point to the running kernel |
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why are we changing it to the newly installed but not yet compiled or |
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started kernel? |
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And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly |
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installed or actual running kernel, when kernel compiling operations |
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take place? |