Am Montag, 25. Februar 2013, 18:35:21 schrieb Peter Gantner:
> 2013-02-25 quidam/quĉdam/quoddam 'Tom Wijsman' inquit:
> > On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:05:01 -0500
> > 
> > "Gino!" <ginolovesyou@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> So, it seems like gentoo-sources loves EOL kernels..
> > 
> > Well, if they EOL both 3.5 and 3.6 there isn't much we can do
> > about that. Although, since we're now with at least two we try to
> > provide everything in 3.x. So the only thing we don't do for the moment
> > is the 2.x kernels, there is one in the vanilla sources if needed.
> > 
> >> so I'm staying at 3.6.11... although I would feel allot more
> >> comfortable with something like 3.4.33!! but its at 3.4.9...
> 
> Personally for those machines I have decided to keep super stable (in
> terms of updating software, at least as far as that is reasonably
> possible with Gentoo) I have had good results with choosing whatever
> Greg KH dubs his Long Term kernel (currenlty 3.4) and then simply
> package.keyword that whole series:
> 
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0* # GKH stable
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1* -*
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2* -*
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.3* -*
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.5* -* # EOL
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4* # GKH stable
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.6* -* # EOL
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.7* -* # not supported by NVidia 310.xx
> 
> I don't mind keywording the minor-minor release from Gentoo, I find it
> unlikely much will break in such a release.


I like this idea. But are there any plans in always stabilizing the latest 
long term kernel within a short timewindow?

-Marc
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