Re: Config manager for Linux?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com)
17 Mar 1996 07:45:14 GMT


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960316230837.682B-100000@droopy.flint.net>
By author: "Raymond W. Lucke IV" <data@droopy.flint.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Is there any way a config manager could be added to Linux? I like t=
o try=20
> > multiple configs, and I have a machine that I'm busy with where I w=
ork,=20
> > so it would be handy to have something that takes care of this for =
me.=20
> > Not with all kinds of neat little gizmos, quick and dirty will do.=20
> > Thought it was worth mentioning this - maybe someone else would fin=
d this=20
> > useful too?
>=20
> Actually, I like the BSD format of configuration.. having a config fi=
le,=20
> so you can have 50 of them, and compile the kernel accordingly..
>=20

Check out the file .config and "make oldconfig".

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