[Solved] A quick sanity check before upgrading Kernel

[wolly01]

Dear Gentoo Forum,

I need to update my Kernel to the a newer version and would like a little assistance.

I've been back on Gentoo for a few months now (and glad to be back) after briefly trying it out about a year ago but had to switch back for certain software. Back on my old system I recompiled my Kernel many times and also updated my Kernel at least once to a newer major (masked) revision.
I have also done many kernel rebuilds at the beginning of this OS install a couple of months ago when I first re-setup Gentoo (mostly due to needing to turn on some kernel features i forgot about )

What I mean by the above paragraph is that I'm not completely clueless when it comes to upgrading ones Kernel. However, this time around I have a sense of trepidation due to not being able to properly probe the state of my system (and thus not know what steps to perform to bring my system to the updated state I desire it to be). Explanation below:

running eselect kernel list nets me the following list of kernels:

[CaptainBlood]

Here's;

[logrusx]

[Hu]

For offline conversion, date -d @value can be used to convert one date. For converting more than one, date -f - can consume a list of such dates. Note that trailing non-date content will need to be removed before passing the line to date.

[pietinger]

[logrusx]

[wolly01]

Thanks for the support everyone, seems like all is ship shape:


CaptainBlood / pietinger:
Looking into my two current llinux src folders I see all the things I need. In particular:
-linux-6.6.13-gentoo: does not have the Kconfig or the Makefile (I presume they got cleared-up when the 6.6.13 sources got un-merged). However it does have my .configs still so I'm all good
-linux-6.6.21 is the opposite, i.e. it is in a state where I can move my .config across and make oldconfig to update my kernel
logrusx & Hu:
Thx, your command had a slight spelling mistake but was easy to fix, netting me the following:

[logrusx]

[wolly01]

Mission success.

Minor panic as I forgot to run make modules_install at first locking me out of X but quickly solved then rebooted. I took the liberty to unmask ~amd64 on the the gentoo-sources whist I was at it as I like having the newest kernel where possible.

logrusx: I did indeed miss the @ - I thought you where using it to denote value being a variable for the command! - silly me . Note that whilst your grep is syntactically well formed you are matching on `gento-osources` not `gentoo-sources`, but is not a worry at all .


Thx again all I appreciate the help with the commands on how to diagnose my system

I will [Solved] shortly!

[logrusx]

[Hu]

[logrusx]