Thank you so much mate.

This kind of shared experience was what I was looking to hear to know… to see 
them…

Cheers!



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Egoitz Aurrekoetxea

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> El 6 dic 2024, a las 13:43, Jean-Francois Maeyhieux <[email protected]> escribió:
> 
> 
> The defaults selected by olddefconfig should be safe.
> At worst, it will add support for things you don't need.
> 
> Personally, I have been maintaining my own kernel configuration for 20
> years, using oldconfig and selecting all new options myself. I deselect
> experimental ones and most device related ones (as I already have
> support for the devices I use). For everything else I look on the web
> about it, it's a way to know what you're doing and to learn a lot about
> what the kernel support through time.
> 
> I'm certainly a config kernel integrist :)
> 
>> Le jeudi 05 décembre 2024 à 22:28 +0100, [email protected] a écrit :
>> Thank you mate!!
>> 
>> 
>> Yep I have used all of them… perhaps I prefer doing a make olddefconfig save 
>> the generated .config and then clean all and run genkernel with menuconfig 
>> and load there (from menuconfig) the olddefconfig .config file…
>> 
>> But you always can think that perhaps some parameter of the new kernel as a 
>> consecuence of a fixed parameter in your .config could end up incorrectly 
>> configured causing corruptions of some sort or very unexpected and dangerous 
>> erroneus working mode….
>> 
>> That’s why I asked about your experience in this kind of aspect…
>> 
>> Cheers!
>>   
>> 
>> firma_saremail
>> 
>> 
>>   
>> 
>>>> El 5 dic 2024, a las 16:40, Jean-Francois Maeyhieux <[email protected]> 
>>>> escribió:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>>  as Norman told you, there is already a packaged kernel with all the
>>> necessary modules to run on any system.
>>> 
>>> If you need a stripped down kernel that only supports your hardware for
>>> example, and you already have a .config from a previous kernel, you
>>> have several options:
>>> 
>>> 1) Manual way:
>>> - copy .config from old/current kernel into new kernel folder
>>> - update the kernel configuration either way:
>>>   1.a) interactively: inside the new kernel folder do "make config"
>>> which will keep all of the options from the old .config and ask you
>>> interactively to set the new options (with default value and help using
>>> the "?" key)
>>>   1.b) using automatic default options: inside the new kernel folder do
>>> "make olddefconfig" which will keep all of the options from the old
>>> .config and set the new options to their recommended (i.e. default)
>>> values.
>>> - Then compile the kernel, modules and out-of-tree modules with:
>>>   make modules_prepare
>>>   make
>>>   emerge --ask @module-rebuild
>>>   make modules_install
>>>   make install
>>> - update grub configuration for openrc based system:
>>>   grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>>> 
>>> See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade
>>> 
>>> 2) The genkernel way:
>>> 
>>> genkernel automates the kernel build process and assembles the
>>> initramfs. See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Genkernel
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>>     Zentoo
>>> 
>>> Le jeudi 05 décembre 2024 à 10:09 +0100, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea a écrit :
>>>> Hi mates,
>>>> 
>>>> I would love using Gentoo as Desktop and Server OS. I used sometime ago, 
>>>> but it caused me the fact of not being able to upgrade my systems weekly 
>>>> or daily, because sometimes you needed to upgrade the kernel and I was not 
>>>> really sure that the config entered for the kernel (loaded through 
>>>> Genkernel but with menuconfig and there load .config file) that was 
>>>> written with previous kernel version building was going to not cause 
>>>> something weird or bad functioning of newer built kernels with that config.
>>>> 
>>>> Does exist a way... where you could emerge world, update all the system, 
>>>> finally end up by upgrading the kernel and being sure that the old .config 
>>>> you used through menuconfig (or by any other way of importing) would not 
>>>> select erroneous parameters in newer kernels?. I though there were some... 
>>>> lint options for the .cofig?. I think I have used them sometime ago....
>>>> 
>>>> So for sumarizing, how do you manage for keep your systems up-to-date 
>>>> using Gentoo?. How do you manage to keep your kernel upgraded?.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>> 
> 

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