Kernel and emerge --update [solved]

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Hello,

I spent all of last weekend tweaking my kernel to the settings I want. (Sound card in kernel, graphics card etc...). Yesterday I ran emerge --sync && emerge -uvDN world. My friend from work said that in order to keep my kernel compatible with these updates, I need to use genkernel. I used genkernel and now I am back to where I was the day I installed gentoo. I have no sound card, midiochre video card support.

What's the deal?

How do I tweak my kernel and still be able to keep my system up to date?

Secondly, emerge --sync says I shouldn't sync more than once a day and my friend from work says he syncs about once a month. What do most people recommend for sync cycles? A day? A week?

Thanks,

David

[Hagar]

You should punch your friend in the head.
He has no idea what he's talking about.

All kernel modules installed with portage are build against the kernel source in /usr/src/linux
/usr/src/linux is a symlink that should be pointing to the kernel source /usr/src/linux-<kernel_release_name>
As long as that link points to the correct kernel source you have nothing to worry about.

How often you sync depends on what type of user you are.
It's just that there is no point in syncing more then once a day, the portage tree doesn't change that frequently.

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[quote="Hagar"]You should punch your friend in the head.
He has no idea what he's talking about.

All kernel modules installed with portage are build against the kernel source in /usr/src/linux
/usr/src/linux is a symlink that should be pointing to the kernel source /usr/src/linux-<kernel_release_name>
As long as that link points to the correct kernel source you have nothing to worry about.

How often you sync depends on what type of user you are.
It's just that there is no point in syncing more then once a day, the portage tree doesn't change that frequently.[/quote]

Thanks!