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On 10/26/2014 04:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel |
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> <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: |
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>>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now. |
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>>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative |
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>>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some |
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>>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not |
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>>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage |
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>>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org. |
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>>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain |
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>>>> their alternative kernels. |
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>>>> Thanks. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> . |
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>>>> |
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>>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and |
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>>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install |
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>>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so. |
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>>> |
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>> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`? |
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>> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm |
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>> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge |
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>> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having |
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>> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess. |
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> I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So |
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> depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one. |
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I was mostly asking Volker since he has vanilla-sources unmasked without |
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specifying a version but is currently running the 3.12.23 kernel. Little |
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crazy imnho, but whatever. |
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> I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch |
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> to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly |
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> automatized. |
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Wow, daredevil right here ;). I usually wait until the current release |
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gets to the 3rd or 4th revision before updating to make sure all the |
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bugs are out. Had a few times where my laptop was not a fan of new |
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kernels - 3.16.1 wouldn't boot, for example. |
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> And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;) |
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Must be nice; my laptop is so old that it boots slowly regardless of my |
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choice of init system. |
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Alec |
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