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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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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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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