Monique Y. Herman wrote:
dselect #get latest kernel src package cd /usr/src/kernel-source-<version> make mrproper #clean any leftover compile stuff
I tried this a few days ago, but I hadn't read the makefile to know what mrproper was doing and I lost my old config file which I had renamed, IIRC, as .config_OLD or .config_org :(
So now if I use mrproper, I *always* save my .config to some other directory, in my case in a tmp in a user's home.
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