Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.18 kernel

[Barry.SCHWARTZ@chemoelectric.org]

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Christoph Mende <ch.mende@googlemail.com> skribis:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 00:42 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> > FWIW, I handle my kernel stuff directly, downloading from kernel.org, not
> > thru portage.  Thus, I care not one whit about Gentoo's kernel
> > stabilizing.
> 
> echo "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources ~arch" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> emerge vanilla-sources
> 
> does exactly the same, difference is that you don't have to check
> kernel.org for new released, emerge -u world does it.

I’ve found vanilla kernels to be much more reliable on my system than
Gentoo kernels (why I don’t know), and use sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
mainly for the above reason of not having to check kernel.org. Which
makes it slightly funny that, at the moment, I’m using 2.6.18.1 that I
downloaded myself from kernel.org. :)


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