[gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.18 kernel

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
4548D810.3010103@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Wed, 01 Nov 2006
12:23:28 -0500:

> Is it just me or is the .18 kernel slow in getting unmasked?  I don't 
> recall any other releases taking as long to be marked stable, but then I 
> haven't been quite as anxious to test a new kernel as I have been for 
> .18.  I'm sure people are running it, so I ask, how is it?  Has it been 
> stable or is it not quite ready for us 'less than hardcore' testers?

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.  If a new kernel.org kernel doesn't work, I just keep using
the old one until the next -rc or whatever that /does/ work. I had been
doing it that way long before I switched to Gentoo, so I just kept doing
what I had always done. The only thing I needed to do was add a kernel
entry to package.provided, so various packages in portage with a
dependency on the kernel knew it was there. Here's my package.provided
file.  Note that I use ridiculously high versions like 999, or 2.6.999 for
the kernel, so I don't have to worry about dependency version number creep:

~$cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
# portage always considers these packages merged,
# and won't attempt to merge them.

################################################################################
# profile related
# in profile as virtual/ssh but unneeded
net-misc/openssh-99
# in profile but unneeded
sys-apps/busybox-99
# don't use Gentoo kernels
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.999

################################################################################
# X-related
# xorg-server thinks it needs, but 100dpi better
media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-99
# xinit needs for default Xsession, I use kde
x11-apps/xsm-99
# don't need xterm since I use kde/konsole
x11-terms/xterm-999


################################################################################
# proprietaryware related
# imagemagick thinks it needs
media-fonts/corefonts-99


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