Dale, On Thursday, 2021-07-01 01:59:57 -0500, you wrote:
> ... > > The subject line pretty much describes this. How does one manage the > system.map file in /boot? Is it needed? Should it be updated with each > kernel? I tend to keep 2 to 3 kernels installed. Same here. And whenever I configure a new kernel my kernel managing script makes sure both, the kernel I'm currenty running on and the one just configured are in "@world". That way "emerge --depclean" will nev- er remove a kernel package. When I finally decide to explicitly remove a kernel my kernel managing script will basically execute this before calling "grub-mkconfig": # Argument 1 must contain slot number of kernel to be removed. emerge --deselect --quiet sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:$1 rm -fr /lib/modules/$1-gentoo /boot/*-$1-gentoo{,.old} \ /usr/src/linux-$1-gentoo This is stuff I somewhere picked up from the Gentoo Handbook when I did my first Gentoo install. > ... > Should I version the > system.map file the same as kernels? Not sure about that. Mine ARE versioned. That's probably what "grub- mkconfig" is doing by default. Sincerely, Rainer