From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HXaZb-0001sn-ET for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:12:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2VABUUX027215; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:11:30 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2VA7GxC022505 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:07:16 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192341BC7A for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:05:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id xz--QlbJMGCV for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54121BC6E for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:05:34 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070331055510.GA29960@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20070331055510.GA29960@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-UID: 28 X-Length: 1360 X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2139364.q0jbWMjCpu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703310505.33944.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: e02e75d2-ed74-434c-87f4-41798bef4409 X-Archives-Hash: b0f7e973470927a72874b06933ab5964 --nextPart2139364.q0jbWMjCpu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 certain kernel version, it will list that in it's depend line, and emerge=20 will complain that it can't satisfy that dependency. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ =20 --nextPart2139364.q0jbWMjCpu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGDjJt55pqL7G1QFkRAvalAJ0bZTEuxfPshgiekYUQ0gMOQnJ3NgCffw4t DGqqJFhrxRpGA5XQQMy/wwU= =m9OK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2139364.q0jbWMjCpu-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list