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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:56 am    Post subject: World update and kernel sources USE="symlink" Reply with quote

I am not using genkernel. If I understand well the implication of USE="symlink -build" for the kernel sources in use during a world update, portage will install the new kernel sources when needed, make a new symlink

my_new_kernel_sources -> linux

in /usr/src, and fail at the first software update that will use the newly installed kernel, that because those kernel sources will not be configured.

In fact, this will be an opportunity to configure, make and install this new kernel, before to continue the world update with "emerge --resume"

Am I right?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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fail at the first software update that will use the newly installed kernel, that because those kernel sources will not be configured.

this depends on the software or the ebuild that installs it; some software only needs configured sources, some needs compiled sources and some ebuilds check the kernel-options via /proc/ - so configuring and compiling the new sources is useless in this case (and kind of annoying when you compile inside a chroot).
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When a software need a compiled kernel, you can configure the kernel and issue something like a "make modules_prepare". It must work in most cases, if not all.

One of the first software I install into a chroot is mc. But I am not inside a chroot now.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@Dominique_71,
What I have for years is NO symlink useflag in make.conf.
This way updating world no problems like you describe.
When I want to install the new kernel I change the symlink to the new kernel.
After compiling it I run "module-rebuild rebuild" to install external modules like nvidia.
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