Re: Using Gentoo as server and desktop

The defaults selected by olddefconfig should be safe.
At worst, it will add support for things you don't need.

Personally, I have been maintaining my own kernel configuration for 20
years, using oldconfig and selecting all new options myself. I deselect
experimental ones and most device related ones (as I already have
support for the devices I use). For everything else I look on the web
about it, it's a way to know what you're doing and to learn a lot about
what the kernel support through time.

I'm certainly a config kernel integrist :)

Le jeudi 05 d=C3=A9cembre 2024 =C3=A0 22:28 +0100, [email protected] a =C3=
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> Thank you mate!!
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> Yep I have used all of them=E2=80=A6 perhaps I prefer doing a make olddef=
config save the generated .config and then clean all and run genkernel with=
 menuconfig and load there (from menuconfig) the olddefconfig .config file=
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> But you always can think that perhaps some parameter of the new kernel as=
 a consecuence of a fixed parameter in your .config could end up incorrectl=
y configured causing corruptions of some sort or very unexpected and danger=
ous erroneus working mode=E2=80=A6.
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> That=E2=80=99s why I asked about your experience in this kind of aspect=
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> Cheers!
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> firma_saremail
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> > El 5 dic 2024, a las 16:40, Jean-Francois Maeyhieux <[email protected]> escr=
ibi=C3=B3:
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> > =EF=BB=BFHi,
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> > =C2=A0as Norman told you, there is already a packaged kernel with all t=
he
> > necessary modules to run on any system.
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> > If you need a stripped down kernel that only supports your hardware for
> > example, and you already have a .config from a previous kernel, you
> > have several options:
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> > 1) Manual way:
> > - copy .config from old/current kernel into new kernel folder
> > - update the kernel configuration either way:
> > =C2=A0=C2=A01.a) interactively: inside the new kernel folder do "make c=
onfig"
> > which will keep all of the options from the old .config and ask you
> > interactively to set the new options (with default value and help using
> > the "?" key)
> > =C2=A0=C2=A01.b) using automatic default options: inside the new kernel=
 folder do
> > "make olddefconfig" which will keep all of the options from the old
> > .config and set the new options to their recommended (i.e. default)
> > values.
> > - Then compile the kernel, modules and out-of-tree modules with:
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0make modules_prepare
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0make
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0emerge --ask @module-rebuild
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0make modules_install
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0make install
> > - update grub configuration for openrc based system:
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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> > See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade
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> > 2) The genkernel way:
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> > genkernel automates the kernel build process and assembles the
> > initramfs. See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Genkernel
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> > Regards,
> > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Zentoo
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> > Le jeudi 05 d=C3=A9cembre 2024 =C3=A0 10:09 +0100, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea =
a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
> > > Hi mates,
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> > > I would love using Gentoo as Desktop and Server OS. I used sometime a=
go, but it caused me the fact of not being able to upgrade my systems weekl=
y or daily, because sometimes you needed to upgrade the kernel and I was no=
t really sure that the config entered for the kernel (loaded through Genker=
nel but with menuconfig and there load .config file) that was written with =
previous kernel version building was going to not cause something weird or =
bad functioning of newer built kernels with that config.
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> > > Does exist a way... where you could emerge world, update all the syst=
em, finally end up by upgrading the kernel and being sure that the old .con=
fig you used through menuconfig (or by any other way of importing) would no=
t select erroneous parameters in newer kernels?. I though there were some..=
. lint options for the .cofig?. I think I have used them sometime ago....
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> > > So for sumarizing, how do you manage for keep your systems up-to-date=
 using Gentoo?. How do you manage to keep your kernel upgraded?.
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> > > Cheers,
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