Re: [gentoo-user] best practice for kernel mainteneance

[Thanasis]

on 11/28/2008 12:31 PM Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote the following:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> wrote:
>
>> Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security,
>> which is the best way to go:
>> 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the
>> sources would be upgraded whenever portage marks a newer version as stable
>> (provided someone follows stable)?
>> 2) Not having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the
>> sources would be upgraded only as a dependency for some other package (which
>> is quite improbable/rare)?
>>
>
> A good way to be kept informed of new software releases is by mailing list.
> For vanilla-sources, use linux-kernel-announce@×××××××××××.org.
> Information (including how to subscribe) at
> http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htm
>
> For gentoo-sources, use gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
> Information (including how to subscribe) at
> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
>
> By the way I recommend you to subscribe to the announce lists of all
> software that matters to you. For example, gentoo-announce (which
> carries important notices such as glsa notices and new Gentoo
> releases), gcc-announce, etc.
>
>
Just subscribed to gentoo-kernel.
:-)      Thanks.