On Thursday 5 December 2024 23:01:36 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-12-05, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea <ego...@sarenet.es> wrote: > > Does exist a way... where you could emerge world, update all the > > system, finally end up by upgrading the kernel and being sure that > > the old .config you used through menuconfig (or by any other way of > > importing) would not select erroneous parameters in newer > > kernels? > > All my systems run custom-configured kernels built from on stable > gentoo-sources. > > All I've ever done for a kernel upgrades is to go into the new kernel > source dir and do the following: > > # zcat /proc/zconfig >.config > # make oldconfig > # make > # make install > > For the past 20+ years, that has always worked fine for minor version > changes (e.g. 5.15.x ⇒ 5.15.y) > > There have been a few major upgrades in the past 20 years when a large > kernel subsystem change required some sort of manual intervention with > a "make menuconfig". But, I can't actually remember the last time it > happened (it's been years). > > -- > Grant
Also, don't forget 'make modules_install' for any modules not built in the kernel.
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