[Sussex] kernel upgrade question about .config file

[Alan F]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Tony Austin wrote:

> I am doing a minor upgrade on a couple of Gentoo machines to comply with
> kernel security updates.  For example from linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 to
> linux-2.4.22-gentoo-r5.
> 
> I am wondering what the best way of getting all the settings transferred
> over from the old .config file to the new .config file might be.  I seem
> to remember that copying the .config from one to the other is not so
> recommended as there can be extra things in the new one.
> 
> Doing a diif on the original and a new .config file gives lots of pages of
> differences, so is not very easy to pick what you need.
> 

Copy it to .config into your kernel source directory, then run 'make 
oldconfig'. It'll ask you about any new features that have been added 
since your last kernel config.

Hope this Helps,
Alan