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author | Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> | 2024-03-14 10:44:10 +0100 |
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committer | Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> | 2024-03-14 10:44:10 +0100 |
commit | 88dc6642839dd61eb2dc861035adb93419e6e9dd (patch) | |
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parent | 2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel: add news item (diff) | |
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2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel: clarify who must take action
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt b/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt index 6f30630..c0ddfd4 100644 --- a/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt +++ b/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: installkernel is no longer implicitly installed Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> Posted: 2024-02-26 -Revision: 1 +Revision: 2 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/debianutils-5.14-r1 @@ -37,11 +37,13 @@ is only installed on the system if it is either explicitly selected or pulled in via the distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)). -User Action Required (all users) +User Action Required (users of manually managed kernels) ==================== -Users who currently have sys-kernel/installkernel installed, must -ensure that it is explicitly selected by emerging it: +Users who manually configure, compile, and install their kernels, i.e. +users of the sys-kernel/*-sources packages, and who wish to continue +to use sys-kernel/installkernel, must ensure that it is explicitly +selected by emerging it: emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/installkernel @@ -54,8 +56,12 @@ and then re-install their kernel. cd /usr/src/linux # (or other location of the kernel sources) make install -Note that this re-installation is not required for users of the -distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)). + +No manual action is required for users of the distribution kernels: +- sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, or +- sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin, or +- sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel + [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel |