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 CB05C1387D3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AD98E09E1; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:21:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f180.google.com (mail-lb0-f180.google.com [209.85.217.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6767E09BF for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f180.google.com with SMTP id z12so1299364lbi.11 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:21:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Jd8UKtwTTaTPnQ7vucUYJZaRjSGldSXhTSZYQk8LPbI=; b=URU7dIaNA0i2vb8Yy0udiZRxfafzazWg6cd2/F8pe9sVLyKCn+8C9QbFhkpK/0oy3G 9oGVM8VkABYCbMI5aRfse9FRoJsP9qQDPlwUdp8YWOwxBHST1IzIHM9zYSfd2YMXfr8j EViUrgHjRm8kNUVIf+7VXyt0ozXdRjO3Q0wuoOZhjeVCUX4CrSeLQxMFaZFbWo+pwJvH dl1Uwx8ee+q8irsbJalRyJ+iK6m45ZhiBCjomNnqiLH2eM0h4aFrWL1o5f/1GYTaCFRB Phuc5jZClJC4bGyqb9i0QcC++J/vP7XIS/S4OjWhFKSEuaM+tuPwlhL9hZ2Bj5+Gzga2 wvOA== 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 X-Received: by 10.152.10.99 with SMTP id h3mr4296504lab.94.1414354888246; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.51.110 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:21:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <544D4FB6.3030701@googlemail.com> <544D51E6.6030302@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:21:28 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels From: Alexander Kapshuk To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9ffbbe58-2ebc-4e72-9019-320c73f82920 X-Archives-Hash: 8a2196943b3af33d087ebd927e5b5c77 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 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 an= d >>> 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 us= e? Thanks.