* Stuart Henderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On 2006/11/03 11:34, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote:
> > Another solution would be, once 4.1 gets out to unpack the base41.tgz,
> > etc41.tgz and comp41.tgz into /usr/somewhere then unpack or checkout
> > using cvs the 4.1 kernel sources in there as well.
>
> Nice idea, and it works sometimes, but only when the new binaries run
> on your old kernel, which isn't guaranteed (see the 'reboot on a new
> kernel' warnings in release(8) and the 'without install media' upgrade
> documentation).
>
Yeah, I should have mentionned that.
In the case of building a kernel it should work since cc has a great
chance of still running on the new kernel (except for things like
switching from a.out to elf or the like).
