Re: pre-compiled kernels

On Friday 28 January 2005 07:05, Blackace wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 23:24 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > I myself would never use this feature, but I'm sure a lot of people
> > would appreciate it. A genkernel generated kernel is one step away
> > from a binary distro's provided kernel. Why not take that extra baby
> > step to make a few lazy users happy?
>
> The only thing I care about is that I can say I want
> hardened-dev-sources, that I want these 3 patch files applied in this
> order, and I want it built with this .config, other than that do
> whatever :)  One benefit of a genkernel kernel being provided is that
> for interactive installs, a user can get the system booting at least,
> then emerge their preferred sources and patch to their heart's content.

I think indeed that a precompiled kernel could be a good fallback. When I 
compile a new kernel I allways keep the old one around. It has happened 
more than once that the old kernel had to come to the rescue.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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