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 002041387D3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:47:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC917E099B; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f174.google.com (mail-ig0-f174.google.com [209.85.213.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F74CE0810 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f174.google.com with SMTP id h18so1798206igc.13 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:47:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9lTb1aIskx53WYbVZ4l4q80wFM8YMLsk57YnF3g93lE=; b=g9ox3P6NfWsjHNk8dRLez1BmsGRtomdnZB95b4BDkkRnZNeKQwWIGvp/cF15OGPEld TWMDJSYmZohkpbVXu5D2IDGSrj4y6FoWphM/3mfaJqQdBbtwqaBRiwRovh/ls0B4UKMV UHLYv1tE3y/+SVv11OgTkXzI2BR1j9adUDM65xklsmDJMlvAcWrtF540I7IZFS2QDXY1 HYY2igvk7VDVdOqraaTeInnidC1Pt+2fmVAjLGZvhJz/OmXznh7yBQRhq9+gQglqqhtn pwCvXsIMBLi5KIk9TV5OlPAaxNeJA/AIXswa1sSBf8xQcLicJF0lYUqygr8wHxyy7L9g 10tg== X-Received: by 10.107.31.202 with SMTP id f193mr18480612iof.16.1414356431873; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:47:11 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.107.148.19 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:46:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <544D4FB6.3030701@googlemail.com> <544D51E6.6030302@alectenharmsel.com> From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:46:50 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5bff2243-ac72-460d-8549-4caee76a33b0 X-Archives-Hash: 901738de0e36c5f1434738a6404afafa On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s 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 som= e >>>>> 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 maintai= n >>>>> their alternative kernels. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> I let portage update the vanilla-sources and once in a while a build a= nd >>>> 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'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. >> >> And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;) >> >> Regards. >> -- >> Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s >> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias >> Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico >> > > Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I = use? Of course it does. As Alan said, there would not be any reason for it not t= o. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico