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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 20:47:18
Message-Id: CADPrc81gXjCh9VBT2YEDTQommwZyADinb-D5FT4yH9bWLCK3-A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
2 <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
5 >> <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
8 >>>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk:
9 >>>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now.
10 >>>>>
11 >>>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative
12 >>>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some
13 >>>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not
14 >>>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage
15 >>>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org.
16 >>>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain
17 >>>>> their alternative kernels.
18 >>>>>
19 >>>>> Thanks.
20 >>>>>
21 >>>>> .
22 >>>>>
23 >>>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and
24 >>>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install
25 >>>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so.
26 >>>>
27 >>> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`?
28 >>>
29 >>> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm
30 >>> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge
31 >>> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having
32 >>> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess.
33 >>
34 >> I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So
35 >> depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one.
36 >>
37 >> I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch
38 >> to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly
39 >> automatized.
40 >>
41 >> And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;)
42 >>
43 >> Regards.
44 >> --
45 >> Canek Peláez Valdés
46 >> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
47 >> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
48 >>
49 >
50 > Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I use?
51
52 Of course it does. As Alan said, there would not be any reason for it not to.
53
54 Regards.
55 --
56 Canek Peláez Valdés
57 Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
58 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>