Re: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs.
On 6/28/24 6:31 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday, 28 June 2024 20:32:11 BST Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
>
>> Remove the date.so it becomes
>> /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware then it applies to all
>> of them and not the specified version.
>>
>> Hope that helps
>
> It certainly does. I wish I'd known that years ago: it would have saved me an
> awful lot of renaming.
The elog message states:
* Your configuration for sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20240610-r1 has been
saved in
* "/etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20240610-r1" for
your editing pleasure.
* You can edit these files by hand and remerge this package with
* USE=savedconfig to customise the configuration.
* You can rename this file/directory to one of the following for
* its configuration to apply to multiple versions:
* ${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}/etc/portage/savedconfig/
* [${CTARGET}|${CHOST}|""]/${CATEGORY}/[${PF}|${P}|${PN}]
I admit that this is a bit hard to analyze...
--
Eli Schwartz
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Re: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs.
On Friday, 28 June 2024 20:32:11 BST Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote: > Remove the date.so it becomes > /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware then it applies to all > of them and not the specified version. > > Hope that helps It certainly does. I wish I'd known that years ago: it would have saved me an awful lot of renaming. -- Regards, Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs.
Remove the date.so it becomes /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware then it applies to all of them and not the specified version. Hope that helps From: Grant Edwards Sent: Friday, June 28, 2024 12:17 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs. Is there any graceful way to handle the elimination of unwanted linux-firmware blobs when doing an update? I believe I understand the process as outlined at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Linux_firmware: 1. install/upgrade sys-kernel/linux-firmware 2. edit /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-ddmm 3. re-emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware with the savedcofnig USE flag I've tried that a few times, but it's rather annoying to have to do that every time linux-firmware gets updated. AFAICT, the list of three or four blobs that I actually need on a specific machine never changes. It seems like there ought to be a way to configure that required firmware list and have the emerge -u "just work", but I can't find it. Have I missed something? Yes, I know... Disk space is cheap. Premature optimization ... etc. It still annoys me. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 18:28 Vitaliy Perekhovy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 04:17:23PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Is there any graceful way to handle the elimination of unwanted > > linux-firmware blobs when doing an update? > > > > I believe I understand the process as outlined at > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Linux_firmware: > > > > 1. install/upgrade sys-kernel/linux-firmware > > 2. edit /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-ddmm > > 3. re-emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware with the savedcofnig USE flag > > > > I've tried that a few times, but it's rather annoying to have to do > > that every time linux-firmware gets updated. > > > > AFAICT, the list of three or four blobs that I actually need on a > > specific machine never changes. > > > > It seems like there ought to be a way to configure that required > > firmware list and have the emerge -u "just work", but I can't find > > it. Have I missed something? > > > > Yes, I know... > > Disk space is cheap. > > Premature optimization ... > > etc. > > > > It still annoys me. > > > > -- > > Grant > > Save your firmware list in > /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware > That's it. > > -- > Best regards, > Vitaliy Perekhovy > After every update to sys-kernel/linux-firmware, you may get the following output: * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20240610' needs updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files. It's a good idea to compare this file to your current file to see if any firmware blobs have gotten updates. However, it's important to then discard this file by choosing `z` in dispatch-conf. Regards, Waldo >
Re: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 04:17:23PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > Is there any graceful way to handle the elimination of unwanted > linux-firmware blobs when doing an update? > > I believe I understand the process as outlined at > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Linux_firmware: > > 1. install/upgrade sys-kernel/linux-firmware > 2. edit /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-ddmm > 3. re-emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware with the savedcofnig USE flag > > I've tried that a few times, but it's rather annoying to have to do > that every time linux-firmware gets updated. > > AFAICT, the list of three or four blobs that I actually need on a > specific machine never changes. > > It seems like there ought to be a way to configure that required > firmware list and have the emerge -u "just work", but I can't find > it. Have I missed something? > > Yes, I know... > Disk space is cheap. > Premature optimization ... > etc. > > It still annoys me. > > -- > Grant Save your firmware list in /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware That's it. -- Best regards, Vitaliy Perekhovy signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs.
Is there any graceful way to handle the elimination of unwanted linux-firmware blobs when doing an update? I believe I understand the process as outlined at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Linux_firmware: 1. install/upgrade sys-kernel/linux-firmware 2. edit /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-ddmm 3. re-emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware with the savedcofnig USE flag I've tried that a few times, but it's rather annoying to have to do that every time linux-firmware gets updated. AFAICT, the list of three or four blobs that I actually need on a specific machine never changes. It seems like there ought to be a way to configure that required firmware list and have the emerge -u "just work", but I can't find it. Have I missed something? Yes, I know... Disk space is cheap. Premature optimization ... etc. It still annoys me. -- Grant
