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On 26/10/2014 22:21, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel |
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>> <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: |
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>>>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now. |
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>>>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative |
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>>>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some |
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>>>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not |
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>>>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage |
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>>>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org. |
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>>>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain |
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>>>>> their alternative kernels. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Thanks. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> . |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and |
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>>>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install |
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>>>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so. |
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>>> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`? |
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>>> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm |
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>>> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge |
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>>> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having |
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>>> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess. |
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>> I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So |
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>> depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one. |
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>> I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch |
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>> to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly |
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>> automatized. |
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>> And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;) |
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>> Regards. |
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>> -- |
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>> Canek Peláez Valdés |
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>> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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>> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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> Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I use? |
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> Thanks. |
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Yes it does. There's no logical reason to think it doesn't. |
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You do have to set some kernel options, but that is true for just about |
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everything in the kernel - you won't have support for hardware X unless |
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you enable hardware X in the kernel config :-) |
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One of the additions with gentoo-sources is the very first menu item, |
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all it does is enable a bunch of stuff that supported init systems |
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(openrc and systemd) use - it's purely a convenience measure and doesn't |
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change the kernel itself per se. systemd for example will need cgroups |
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enabled, openrc needs udev-mount. It's all in the ebuild, and portage |
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throws an error is something required is not set in .config. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |