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on 11/28/2008 11:54 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: |
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> On Friday 28 November 2008 10:41:55 Thanasis wrote: |
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>> Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security, |
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>> which is the best way to go: |
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>> 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the |
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>> sources would be upgraded whenever portage marks a newer version as |
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>> stable (provided someone follows stable)? |
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>> 2) Not having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean |
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>> the sources would be upgraded only as a dependency for some other |
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>> package (which is quite improbable/rare)? |
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>> (or, I may be missing something :-) ) |
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>> |
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> Yes, you are missing the entire point. |
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> Every kernel ebuild is in it's own SLOT so an upgrade will never change |
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> anything that's already there, it gets an entirely new source tree |
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> in /usr/src |
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I knew that. :-) |
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The question is: |
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Am I supposed/ should I upgrade when a new source tree becomes stable? |
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