[Sussex] kernel upgrade question about .config file

[Tony Austin]

Alan F said:
>
>
> 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
>

Excellent!  Many thanks.


Regards.

Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
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