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 071461387D3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E046E0AF0; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f178.google.com (mail-lb0-f178.google.com [209.85.217.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8A4EE0AB9 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f178.google.com with SMTP id f15so966156lbj.9 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:40:54 -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=oHHRCBfCXMglW9eBjOVSZSUZFVwqfY0x9MYpieT2oD8=; b=jxxYmgpa8nHFc7rIWxLg3EGkGG20EPFWGiKYhTmbKyVzuI4Ho4ke7Jw02b+p4e4gVB NQk6Q5/rqV5wxuW3nyGC0Ik41cmFJZ5cZRyadrWiVehWVYahLzH4fzneyPTT9Vd9FAGw oQAY+HYAyWBIqEhgTNOqZQT9BqIPS0Mdf+6FCwowuRbDLMVz3mANM359Jh83YJfo4rdS bzP62wcFpO3JdC1du/5QRNq0R05ZOy9MIPE8XhOjR0XuuGbVu1lPrXrsJFzJNKPu1M+f nVmYLtm2sHGHWV0DTPQyxXV+Z7Vouqk/mKMW2QoaPPArg9gEop6q3bSIBCgNZfT9tBwc HajQ== 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 10.152.20.72 with SMTP id l8mr11420431lae.43.1414352454002; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.51.110 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:40:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:40:53 +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: 685ad67f-4e8e-4f0c-871d-b3e63d78f947 X-Archives-Hash: 2d0c73dbaf6cec1908a8e1284fb0c279 On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> 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. > > I've been using vanilla-sources since September 2009, in all my > machines. I use systemd, so having the latest kernel version doesn't > hurt; a new vanilla-sources version is usually ready a few hours after > Linus releases a new kernel, and gentoo-sources takes at least a few > weeks, sometimes more. > > As to how do I maintain them, I wrote a little utility that I've been > using from the last year or so: > > https://github.com/canek-pelaez/kerninst > > With it, after I install a new kernel using the normal portage > procedure, I just do: > > eselect kernel set > kerninst > > And that's it. Be aware that you need to provide your own kernel configur= ation. > > Regards. > -- > Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s > Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias > Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico > Understood. Thanks for sharing your kernel maintenance experiences.