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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:49:29
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMVqytwHy6XmEGfR7y06nMtWq+5LGs4YDS9wafGQ+EWyvw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
3 > <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
6 >>> <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
7 >>>>
8 >>>> On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
9 >>>>> Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk:
10 >>>>>> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now.
11 >>>>>>
12 >>>>>> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative
13 >>>>>> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some
14 >>>>>> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not
15 >>>>>> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage
16 >>>>>> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org.
17 >>>>>> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain
18 >>>>>> their alternative kernels.
19 >>>>>>
20 >>>>>> Thanks.
21 >>>>>>
22 >>>>>> .
23 >>>>>>
24 >>>>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and
25 >>>>> install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install
26 >>>>> 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so.
27 >>>>>
28 >>>> What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`?
29 >>>>
30 >>>> I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm
31 >>>> running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge
32 >>>> fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having
33 >>>> a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess.
34 >>>
35 >>> I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So
36 >>> depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one.
37 >>>
38 >>> I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch
39 >>> to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly
40 >>> automatized.
41 >>>
42 >>> And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;)
43 >>>
44 >>> Regards.
45 >>> --
46 >>> Canek Peláez Valdés
47 >>> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
48 >>> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
49 >>>
50 >>
51 >> Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I use?
52 >
53 > Of course it does. As Alan said, there would not be any reason for it not to.
54 >
55 > Regards.
56 > --
57 > Canek Peláez Valdés
58 > Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
59 > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
60 >
61
62 Understood. Thanks.