From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:05:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703310505.33944.bss03@volumehost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070331055510.GA29960@waltdnes.org>
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On Saturday 31 March 2007 00:55:10 Walter Dnes wrote:
> Having gotten rather tired of doing this
> manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added
>
> >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5
>
> It won't hurt me now, but is there anything that might depend on newer
> kernels? It's assumed I'll upgrade when required by a security alert.
> Other than that, how long can I get away between kernel upgrades?
Just watch your GLSAs, and you should be fine. If a package depends on a
certain kernel version, it will list that in it's depend line, and emerge
will complain that it can't satisfy that dependency.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-31 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-31 5:55 [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels? Walter Dnes
2007-03-31 8:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-02 5:02 ` Walter Dnes
2007-04-02 8:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-03-31 10:05 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [this message]
2007-03-31 11:06 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-31 11:03 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-31 16:05 ` b.n.
2007-03-31 14:11 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-01 14:21 ` b.n.
2007-04-01 12:48 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-01 22:51 ` b.n.
2007-04-01 21:35 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-04-01 22:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-02 5:35 ` Walter Dnes
2007-04-02 8:38 ` Neil Bothwick
[not found] ` <200704130133.49396.bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
[not found] ` <20070413005947.27416382@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
2007-04-13 0:11 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-13 7:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-16 13:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-16 13:06 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-16 13:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-13 22:49 ` Anthony E. Caudel
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