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 1HXbUQ-0004jg-EP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:11:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2VB8bta005678; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:08:37 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2VB3eV2032481 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:03:40 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 027CE1FF8A4 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:03:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F411FF677 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:03:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.7) with ESMTPSA id 21731412 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:03:39 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels? Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:03:40 +0200 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703311303.41029.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 67923bd9-5fbe-4e32-9791-8edcb2ea0eae X-Archives-Hash: 58f59d1224854c44bbe25972b3ee5521 On Samstag, 31. M=E4rz 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > Partial "df" output before unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 7325372 4401624 63% / > > > Partial "df" output after unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 4183616 7543380 36% / > > Yes folks, 3.14 gigs. 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? > besides critical bug fixes, security fixes and driver updates? IMHO masking never kernels is a really bad idea. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list