-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:39, Joshua Banks wrote: > When I issued the commad: > > emerge -u world > > My kernel was upgraded form 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 to r6. Among other things.
[snip] > If I do a "uname -a", it shows that I'm still running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5. > > Did I do the right thing after upgradeing or do I need to reboot as well? Kernels, under no circumstances, are automagically built and installed for you. What emerge did was put the new source onto your system, for you to compile. The kernel is far too important to risk messing with in an automated way. You can use the genkernel script to help. > Is there some type of Standard Operating Proceedure after doing an "emerge > sync" ,"emerge -u world" and/or right after downloading anytype of > application..I.E. ethereal, Gaim, ect..ect.. that I should be following for > best practices? Not especially, just update the config files as asked. > Can I download other applications (tar.gz's) that aren't included in the > portage tree without effecting Gentoo in anyway? You can, just follow the convention of putting them into /usr/local/..., and remove them again if they appear in portage. All kinds of horrid compilation problems can ensue if out of date libraries are found, especially when they aren't under portage's control. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WwzDInuLMrk7bIwRAu58AJ96zfHxide0ZNV2tt7y/xih2/933wCfY9nc SS5QuCOao76b9ZnsOuFp7/8= =kCnX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
