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On Fri, 22 May 2015 20:55:39 -0400, Tom H wrote: |
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> > I've never understood the approach of trusting the makefile to |
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> > configure your kernel, compile it, compile any number of modules and |
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> > install all those modules, but when it comes to copying one file |
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> > to /boot, that has to be done manually because the makefile can't be |
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> > trusted to get things right. |
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> "/sbin/installkernel" renames the already-installed vmlinuz and |
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> System.map if it's installing the same version of the kernel. |
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Not if you set LOCALVERSION or LOCALVERSION_AUTO in the kernel config, |
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then you never get two kernels with the same name. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Keyboard: (n.) a device used by programmers to write software for a mouse |
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or joystick and by operators for playing games such as 'word processing.' |
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