The only way you will make it work, is if you have a minimum one working backup. You upgrade a backup first, check if everything is working correctly then you update the main system. Have been doing it for over 20-years.
It is not only the kernel that you have to worry about. -- syscon On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM Egoitz Aurrekoetxea <ego...@sarenet.es> wrote: > > > Hi mates, > > I would love using Gentoo as Desktop and Server OS. I used sometime ago, > but it caused me the fact of not being able to upgrade my systems weekly or > daily, because sometimes you needed to upgrade the kernel and I was not > really sure that the config entered for the kernel (loaded through > Genkernel 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. > > 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?. I though there were some... > lint options for the .cofig?. I think I have used them sometime ago.... > > 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?. > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > > > > > [image: sarenet] > *Egoitz Aurrekoetxea* > Departamento de sistemas > 94 - 420 94 70 > ego...@sarenet.es > www.sarenet.es > Parque Tecnológico. Edificio 103 > 48170 Zamudio (Bizkaia) > [image: servicios sarenet] > Antes de imprimir este correo electrónico piense si es necesario hacerlo. > >
