From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CE81387D3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:56:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08B62E0B9A; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 141E2E0B92 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D83A207A6 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:56:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:56:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:message-id:date:from :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=g1sJ93ilQsH5LfqcOH0aR2 Fj12w=; b=O/IA8m/VmgL0AGcmjHGWrBDg1caOzg/MlTgeRtVjqtvTRC2NZ/03JN i7fybEXbPQFKndMbcH/PfJaufLla+cKRxMcy+5e3PX0O3fhVdWCR+gdsj9pNftQ8 yJoIMJ7tdaOrbJdfeTVohunhsRpYPg7kfZBXNNUDqdBxinYGbYRbI= X-Sasl-enc: 1o9iGiA8CLTEs+6Kt2TxqmvsOL/JZuwkzVmbDTLmHsG7 1414353383 Received: from [35.2.110.98] (unknown [35.2.110.98]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 51734680101 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:56:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <544D51E6.6030302@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:56:22 -0400 From: Alec Ten Harmsel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels References: <544D4FB6.3030701@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <544D4FB6.3030701@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0c3483dc-3a01-4a5c-a2b6-d4a496fd69c6 X-Archives-Hash: ea011cd0ba16dfe48c7f8c9f34b4752e On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: >> I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now. >> >> I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative >> kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some >> of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which I'm not >> interested in using, are vanilla-sources available in the portage >> tree, and the sources available on kernel.org. >> I'd appreciate being given some pointers on how the folk here maintain >> their alternative kernels. >> >> Thanks. >> >> . >> > I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build and > install a new kernel. At the moment I am on 3.12.23. Maybe I install > 3.12.30 tonight. If I find a good reason to do so. > What happens when you run `emerge --depclean`? I always un-keyword the exact version of vanilla-sources that I'm running since I update and depclean on a weekly basis. I'm not a huge fan of having a bunch of kernels under /usr/src/linux-* but only having a couple of them compiled, but to each his own I guess. Alec