Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig command? I
can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a different name, then
using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it would be nice to just tell it
not to alter the existing .config file. It may be that I'm just missing it but
man pages and Google have not provided a solution.

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Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400
schrieb Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>:

> Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig command? I
> can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a different name, then
> using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it would be nice to just tell it
> not to alter the existing .config file. It may be that I'm just missing it but
> man pages and Google have not provided a solution.

Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option:

# Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel?
OLDCONFIG="no"

HTH
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Marc Joliet

On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400
>
> schrieb Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>:
> > Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig
> > command? I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a
> > different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it
> > would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file.
> > It may be that I'm just missing it but man pages and Google have not
> > provided a solution.
>
> Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option:
>
> # Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel?
> OLDCONFIG="no"
>
> HTH

It did indeed help. I was looking for a command line argument. Didn't even
think of the config file. Thank you!

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On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote:
>> Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400
>>
>> schrieb Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>:
>>> Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig
>>> command? I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a
>>> different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it
>>> would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file.
>>> It may be that I'm just missing it but man pages and Google have not
>>> provided a solution.
>>
>> Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option:
>>
>> # Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel?
>> OLDCONFIG="no"
>>
>> HTH
>
> It did indeed help. I was looking for a command line argument. Didn't even
> think of the config file. Thank you!

I've never seen this before, either. Thanks for the tip, Marc.

Daniel, how do you use genkernel? I've found that I need to run "make
oldconfig" or, my preference, "make silentoldconfig" by hand before I
ever use genkernel. I copy my old .config to the new kernel directory,
run silentoldconfig, then I run genkernel. Is that the problem you're
facing or do you see changes between invocations of genkernel?

Am Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:00:49 -0700
schrieb Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>:

> On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote:
> >> Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400
> >>
> >> schrieb Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>:
> >>> Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig
> >>> command? I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a
> >>> different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it
> >>> would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file.
> >>> It may be that I'm just missing it but man pages and Google have not
> >>> provided a solution.
> >>
> >> Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option:
> >>
> >> # Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel?
> >> OLDCONFIG="no"
> >>
> >> HTH
> >
> > It did indeed help. I was looking for a command line argument. Didn't even
> > think of the config file. Thank you!
>
> I've never seen this before, either. Thanks for the tip, Marc.

You're welcome . I only remembered it because I was in exactly the same
situation, trying to get genkernel to not overwrite my kernel config. I
remember being annoyed that genkernel didn't have a --no-oldconfig command
line option. I'm surprised it still doesn't. After all, several other options
have corresponding --no-* variants, like "--[no-]mrproper". Oh, well.

[snip]

Happy to help (hey, that acronymises to HTH, too!)
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Marc Joliet