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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:59:59
Message-Id: 20070331055510.GA29960@waltdnes.org
1 Partial "df" output before unmerging a bunch of kernels
2 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
3 /dev/sda1 11726996 7325372 4401624 63% /
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6 Partial "df" output after unmerging a bunch of kernels
7 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
8 /dev/sda1 11726996 4183616 7543380 36% /
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10 Yes folks, 3.14 gigs. Having gotten rather tired of doing this
11 manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added
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13 >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5
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15 It won't hurt me now, but is there anything that might depend on newer
16 kernels? It's assumed I'll upgrade when required by a security alert.
17 Other than that, how long can I get away between kernel upgrades?
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20 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
21 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security?
22 A. I think it would be a good idea.
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24 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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