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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:11:22
Message-Id: 200703311303.41029.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels? by Walter Dnes
1 On Samstag, 31. März 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > Partial "df" output before unmerging a bunch of kernels
3 > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
4 > /dev/sda1 11726996 7325372 4401624 63% /
5 >
6 >
7 > Partial "df" output after unmerging a bunch of kernels
8 > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
9 > /dev/sda1 11726996 4183616 7543380 36% /
10 >
11 > Yes folks, 3.14 gigs. Having gotten rather tired of doing this
12 > manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added
13 >
14 > >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5
15 >
16 > It won't hurt me now, but is there anything that might depend on newer
17 > kernels? It's assumed I'll upgrade when required by a security alert.
18 > Other than that, how long can I get away between kernel upgrades?
19 >
20
21 besides critical bug fixes, security fixes and driver updates?
22
23 IMHO masking never kernels is a really bad idea.
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