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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:17:17
Message-Id: CADPrc82t5EgGpnE7m_y_8tddiTn4vMUN055Kg2gWniv2QJ0OGw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
2 <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > Am 26.10.2014 um 21:16 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
4 >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
5 >> <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >>> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
7 >>>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk:
8 >>>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now.
9 >>>>>
10 >>>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative
11 >>>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some
12 >>>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not
13 >>>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage
14 >>>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org.
15 >>>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain
16 >>>>> their alternative kernels.
17 >>>>>
18 >>>>> Thanks.
19 >>>>>
20 >>>>> .
21 >>>>>
22 >>>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and
23 >>>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install
24 >>>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so.
25 >>>>
26 >>> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`?
27 >>>
28 >>> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm
29 >>> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge
30 >>> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having
31 >>> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess.
32 >> I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So
33 >> depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one.
34 >>
35 >> I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch
36 >> to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly
37 >> automatized.
38 >>
39 >> And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;)
40 >>
41 >> Regards.
42 >
43 > and without systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds too.
44
45 Yeah Volker, whatever you say. You always make me laugh.
46
47 > Keep your stupid propaganda to yourself. Thank you.
48
49 You are free to stop reading me if you want. Me? I want to keep
50 reading you, you are hilarious, specially how do you think I will do
51 anything you'll say. Funny, funny guy. Keep it up.
52
53 > As long as most time of a boot is spend by the bios, it really does not
54 > matter if the init system needs 1.5 seconds until X starts or 2.5 seconds.
55
56 Actually, with UEFI fastboot and Gummiboot, the kernel starts to boot
57 in just a couple of seconds. But, as with many other things you say,
58 is obvious you don't know what you are talking about, so believe
59 whatever you want.
60
61 I'll just keep laughing at you.
62
63 Regards.
64 --
65 Canek Peláez Valdés
66 Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
67 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>