Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
> <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote:
>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now.
>>
>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative
>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some
>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not
>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage
>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org.
>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain
>> their alternative kernels.
>
> I've been using vanilla-sources since September 2009, in all my
> machines. I use systemd, so having the latest kernel version doesn't
> hurt; a new vanilla-sources version is usually ready a few hours after
> Linus releases a new kernel, and gentoo-sources takes at least a few
> weeks, sometimes more.
>
> As to how do I maintain them, I wrote a little utility that I've been
> using from the last year or so:
>
> https://github.com/canek-pelaez/kerninst
>
> With it, after I install a new kernel using the normal portage
> procedure, I just do:
>
> eselect kernel set <new-version>
> kerninst
>
> And that's it. Be aware that you need to provide your own kernel configuration.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>

Understood. Thanks for sharing your kernel maintenance experiences.