Bug 56627

Summary:	Genkernel not using previous config from /etc/kernels
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Yogesh <ysharma>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Yogesh 2004-07-10 11:18:20 UTC

I emerge world which gives me the 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r8 kernel, I change symlink of /usr/src/linux to this new kernel and ran genkernel all hoping that it will pick /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86-2.4.25_pre7-gss-r6 but it tries to use /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.4 as it fails to find /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86-2.4.25_pre7-gss-r8

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.genkernel all

Actual Results:  
If uses gentoo default config

Expected Results:  
It should use system default config

Comment 1 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-11 03:47:18 UTC

I don't see how this is a bug - if /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86-2.4.25_pre7-gss-r8 is not there, it can't use it. It won't use the other .config since it does not match the kernel version. Maybe "genkernel --config-file=<config>" is what you need?

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-11 03:47:44 UTC

Sorry, that should be "genkernel --kernel-config=<file>".

Comment 3 Yogesh 2004-07-11 06:58:09 UTC

I remember correctly, earlier version used to behave like this. 

If you have 2.4.25_pre7-gs installed it used pick that one for building r* releases.

I still believe that should be the desired behaviour as 2.4.25_pre7-gs-r6 and 2.4.25_pre7-gs-r8 contains same base kernel.