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 16B4E1387D3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:10:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89CFAE093D; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:10:30 +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 3BC51E0871 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0ED82063D for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:10:28 -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=dMVNZbdPKLyA4u0A5/S9Fy d5l2s=; b=LH+KmxyTGeU4ff73FQvzNxZ8zMtZ3mWu4OtKYUDUAZ9KJv+GoQm0QL Os6jn7qFu+sgb5u8pETf6lo3hYggdld9ky4GGPMrq3mErxmfo0OIGaVriImvh4Uy rlXh6yjZb45YVUvqUNfxE0df50URIKrfEf9pjyp6ruuKa+WMUgSjI= X-Sasl-enc: SlI6ivRqYai341cS1TGBOwIN6O9lD33hRxA1OLWOZ4Cg 1414357828 Received: from [35.2.110.98] (unknown [35.2.110.98]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7458A680156 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <544D6344.8010101@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:10:28 -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> <544D51E6.6030302@alectenharmsel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: bd1bfe35-5c6a-4796-b951-6120d0f69bb2 X-Archives-Hash: 7d6a11c6ffe3f7161fc3cbe8ad296e9c On 10/26/2014 04:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel > wrote: >> 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. > I have sys-kernel/vanilla-sources in package.keywords, unversioned. So > depclean cleans away the older versions, and I keep the latest one. I was mostly asking Volker since he has vanilla-sources unmasked without specifying a version but is currently running the 3.12.23 kernel. Little crazy imnho, but whatever. > I'm on 3.17.1 right now, but the moment 3.17.2 comes out I will switch > to it in all my machines: with kerninst is all of it mostly > automatized. Wow, daredevil right here ;). I usually wait until the current release gets to the 3rd or 4th revision before updating to make sure all the bugs are out. Had a few times where my laptop was not a fan of new kernels - 3.16.1 wouldn't boot, for example. > And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;) Must be nice; my laptop is so old that it boots slowly regardless of my choice of init system. Alec