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On Saturday 31 March 2007 00:55:10 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Having gotten rather tired of doing this |
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> manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added |
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> >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 |
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> It won't hurt me now, but is there anything that might depend on newer |
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> kernels? It's assumed I'll upgrade when required by a security alert. |
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> Other than that, how long can I get away between kernel upgrades? |
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Just watch your GLSAs, and you should be fine. If a package depends on a |
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certain kernel version, it will list that in it's depend line, and emerge |
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will complain that it can't satisfy that dependency. |
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