Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

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