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From: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:31:31
Message-Id: 38af3d670811280231i32c13002g4fbe7b8b53f493f2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance by Thanasis
1 On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security,
3 > which is the best way to go:
4 > 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the
5 > sources would be upgraded whenever portage marks a newer version as stable
6 > (provided someone follows stable)?
7 > 2) Not having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the
8 > sources would be upgraded only as a dependency for some other package (which
9 > is quite improbable/rare)?
10
11 A good way to be kept informed of new software releases is by mailing list.
12 For vanilla-sources, use linux-kernel-announce@×××××××××××.org.
13 Information (including how to subscribe) at
14 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htm
15
16 For gentoo-sources, use gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
17 Information (including how to subscribe) at
18 http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
19
20 By the way I recommend you to subscribe to the announce lists of all
21 software that matters to you. For example, gentoo-announce (which
22 carries important notices such as glsa notices and new Gentoo
23 releases), gcc-announce, etc.
24
25 --
26 Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds

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