Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
<alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk:
>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now.
>>>
>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative
>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some
>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not
>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage
>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org.
>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain
>>> their alternative kernels.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and
>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install
>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so.
>>
> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`?
>
> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm
> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge
> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having
> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess.

I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So
depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one.

I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch
to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly
automatized.

And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;)

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México