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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Kapshuk |
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> <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> 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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>>>>>> Thanks. |
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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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> Of course it does. As Alan said, there would not be any reason for it not to. |
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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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Understood. Thanks. |