Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2005 12:18:19 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > The disadvantage of this approach is that you don't get to see what > > new options have been added. > Within the series, I probably don't care (i.e., moving from > gentoo-sources -r6 to -r8, which I only even did because -r6 was remov

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:24:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>For changing series, I definitely prefer to look at the kernel config >>anyway, to see what options the series' patches have added, but for >>upgrading within the same series, if nothing has really changed, it

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:24:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > For changing series, I definitely prefer to look at the kernel config > anyway, to see what options the series' patches have added, but for > upgrading within the same series, if nothing has really changed, it's > nice to know you can just

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Owen schreef: > On 5/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had >>selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? >>Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work?

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
make help and i thinks its oldconfig, not oldmenuconfig ? On Thu, 26 May 2005 01:16:20 + (UTC) James wrote: > Hello, > > Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had > selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? > Isn't 'make oldmenuc

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
oldconfig usually works for minor version changes - just don't use it to go from say a 2.4 to 2.6. xconfig needs qt installed - I get an error about qt when I try to run it. * * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the * QT development package is correctly installed and th

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Owen
On 5/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had > selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? > Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? > > Also I perviously u

[gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread James
Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I perviously used xconfig (make xconfig) in lieu of make menuconfig, b