commit: 88dc6642839dd61eb2dc861035adb93419e6e9dd
Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 14 09:44:10 2024 +0000
Commit: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Thu Mar 14 09:44:10 2024 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=88dc6642
2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel: clarify who must take action
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo.org>
.../2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git
a/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
b/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
index 6f30630..c0ddfd4 100644
---
a/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
+++
b/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Title: installkernel is no longer implicitly installed
Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerl...@gentoo.org>
Posted: 2024-02-26
-Revision: 1
+Revision: 2
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel
Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/debianutils-5.14-r1
@@ -37,11 +37,13 @@ is only installed on the system if it is either explicitly
selected or
pulled in via the distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)).
-User Action Required (all users)
+User Action Required (users of manually managed kernels)
====================
-Users who currently have sys-kernel/installkernel installed, must
-ensure that it is explicitly selected by emerging it:
+Users who manually configure, compile, and install their kernels, i.e.
+users of the sys-kernel/*-sources packages, and who wish to continue
+to use sys-kernel/installkernel, must ensure that it is explicitly
+selected by emerging it:
emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/installkernel
@@ -54,8 +56,12 @@ and then re-install their kernel.
cd /usr/src/linux # (or other location of the kernel sources)
make install
-Note that this re-installation is not required for users of the
-distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)).
+
+No manual action is required for users of the distribution kernels:
+- sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, or
+- sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin, or
+- sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel
+
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel
