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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:27:13
Message-Id: 201202230826.00642.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness by Coert Waagmeester
1 On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 08:10:56 Coert Waagmeester wrote:
2 > Hello all,
3 >
4 > Usually on gentoo when gentoo-sources gets updated, updating the kernel
5 > went as follows:
6 >
7 > eselect kernel set {new kernel}
8 > cd /usr/src/linux
9 > make menuconfig
10 >
11 > and then there was a totally clean config which I would then customize
12 > for the specific setup.
13 >
14 > On one box I am currently running 3.1.6-gentoo
15 > When I start make menuconfig for 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 it would appear as if
16 > it got my current config from somewhere, eg local version.
17 >
18 > Is this a new feature?
19 >
20 > To make sure of this I unistalled all gentoo-sources pkgs, deleted
21 > everything /usr/src/linux*
22 > installed the latest gentoo-sources
23 > yet it still seems to find the current config somewhere
24 >
25 > Anyway, just wondering,,
26 >
27 > Regards,
28 > Coert
29
30 Where does the /usr/src/linux symlink point to? Here's mine:
31
32 $ ls -la /usr/src/
33 total 20
34 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 4 11:40 .
35 drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 27 09:01 ..
36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 16 2010 .keep
37 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 4 11:40 linux -> /usr/src/linux-3.2.1-
38 gentoo-r2
39 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Oct 16 16:40 linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r3
40 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 8 21:35 linux-3.0.6-gentoo
41 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 18 13:31 linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2
42 --
43 Regards,
44 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness Coert Waagmeester <lgroups@××××××××××××××.za>