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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:21:36
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMUSiaN8mP=AKjLpCqxOEdidUTxt1ToXaOz4y0qLTdgsiQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
3 > <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >>
5 >> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
6 >>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk:
7 >>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now.
8 >>>>
9 >>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative
10 >>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some
11 >>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not
12 >>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage
13 >>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org.
14 >>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain
15 >>>> their alternative kernels.
16 >>>>
17 >>>> Thanks.
18 >>>>
19 >>>> .
20 >>>>
21 >>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and
22 >>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install
23 >>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so.
24 >>>
25 >> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`?
26 >>
27 >> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm
28 >> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge
29 >> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having
30 >> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess.
31 >
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 > Canek Peláez Valdés
44 > Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
45 > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
46 >
47
48 Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I use?
49 Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>