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patrix_neo
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 Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: When emerging packages relying on /usr/src/linux (Tips) |
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I have had this occuring to me at times over again.
When rebooting your newly compiled kernel or want to reboot with a different kernel, the /usr/src/linux link is pointing at that other kernel source tree.
That is bad when compiling nvidia kernels, glibc or what kernel-dependent you are emergeing. This is my solution to guarrantee this will never happend:
| Code: | /etc/conf.d/local.start:
rm /usr/src/linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`
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This can ofcourse be modified to suit your gentoo-rX kernel with appropriate syntax for 'uname'.
Thought it could be handy. |
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orionrobots
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kuku
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| Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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it doesnt work when I got enabled in the kernel config | Code: | | Local version - append to kernel release |
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monkey89
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| Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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I think you can also set USE="symlink" and the link will automatically be updated when you emerge a new set of kernel sources.
-Monkey |
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patrix_neo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| kuku wrote: | it doesnt work when I got enabled in the kernel config | Code: | | Local version - append to kernel release |
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well, the gentoo vanilla is also named differently which I am using in another machine. So I think you should be cool with uname syntaxes there too (not -r though, or?) I am not all sure here and am not an expert in filtering and uname:ing so I wont say it will work definitely. 
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patrix_neo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| monkey89 wrote: | I think you can also set USE="symlink" and the link will automatically be updated when you emerge a new set of kernel sources.
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Ah, didnt know that. Still, if you rely on kernels outside the emerge tree you can always use this one. Like me (kernel.org tree kernel) |
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