* Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
@ 2014-10-26 21:10 99% ` Alec Ten Harmsel
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From: Alec Ten Harmsel @ 2014-10-26 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 10/26/2014 04:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel
> <alec@alectenharmsel.com> 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
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