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* Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
  @ 2014-10-26 19:56 99%   ` Alec Ten Harmsel
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From: Alec Ten Harmsel @ 2014-10-26 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw
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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


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