Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to import old config files with newer kernel sources? >>> I tried it once by simply copying .config into the newer src dir, but >>> I read somewhere that there could be

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 23, 2012 12:25 pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Just don't do what I did earlier: sit in Joburg and configure the > firewall on a Xen host in deepest darkest Africa where there's no > tarred roads to get to it. How did you get the server there? Flown it in? I've seen the roads in Afric

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:16:41 +0200 Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > Not doing it this way means a very high likelyhood of the machine > > not booting with every single upgrade, plus the huge amount of work > > it takes to go through everything in menuconfig. > > indeed, especially when the server

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:35 +0200 Coert Waagmeester wrote: On 02/23/2012 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: The only thing I can currently think of is maybe the kernel config files in /boo