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Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> On Feb 25, 2012 9:16 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> ---->8snip |
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>> That is true BUT the docs are for 100% certainty. Well, 99% at least. |
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>> They almost always have the safest way to do anything but not |
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>> necessarily the most used way. There are lots of things I do |
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>> differently from the docs and my system generally works fine, except for |
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>> the little roaches that scurry about from time to time. |
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>> If you want a drop dead, almost as sure as the Sun comes up in the East |
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>> approach, go by the docs. If you want to save some time for most |
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>> general usage, do it the way us goofy geeks do it. Some of us know some |
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>> neat shortcuts. |
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>> Dale |
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> I tend to do an 'eyeball dryrun' first: start tmux, create 2 'windows', |
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> do make menuconfig of the older kernel in the first window, and start |
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> make menuconfig in the second. I quickly compare the menu structure of |
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> both to see where the implicit oldconfig might choke, do some research |
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> if necessary, and make notes. |
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> Then, I exit the newer menuconfig and cp the older .config to the newer |
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> src directory, and start make menuconfig again. I keep comparing what |
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> I'm doing against what I've done in window #1. |
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> Never had a kernel upgrade failure this way -- touch wood! |
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> Rgds, |
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I have had only one doing it the quick way. When I did have a failure |
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tho, I did like you do but in two windows of Konsole. One window on top |
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and one on bottom. Just went section by section. Over the past 3 or so |
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years, no problems and it only takes about 20 seconds. One thing tho, |
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if it fails, it generally tells you it made a mess. Just delete the new |
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config and start from scratch like above. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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