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Am 26.10.2014 um 22:10 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: |
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> On 10/26/2014 04:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés 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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I went to 3.16.6 instead. |
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>>>> |
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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 was mostly asking Volker since he has vanilla-sources unmasked without |
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> specifying a version but is currently running the 3.12.23 kernel. Little |
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> crazy imnho, but whatever. |
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since I don't update that often specifying a certain version is... not |
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really necessary. |
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And updating a kernel means a reboot. Since rebooting has a high chance |
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of something going wrong (too many times I saw a hdd or ssd that worked |
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fine moments ago die on reboot), and disrupts whatever I am doing (all |
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those nice konsole tabs) and costs times (s3 to desktop is just so much |
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faster). I spend a lot of time with a certain kernel. |
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For depclean - I can't even remember the last time I run it. |
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> Must be nice; my laptop is so old that it boots slowly regardless of my |
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> choice of init system. |
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as others have written already: ssd. |
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With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning. |
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Usually 5 minutes before the start of your weekly or monthly backup run. |
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And that is first hand experience. |
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