Am Montag, 25. Februar 2013, 18:35:21 schrieb Peter Gantner: > 2013-02-25 quidam/quædam/quoddam 'Tom Wijsman' inquit: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:05:01 -0500 > > > > "Gino!" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So, it seems like gentoo-sources loves EOL kernels.. > > > > Well, if they EOL both 3.5 and 3.6 there isn't much we can do > > about that. Although, since we're now with at least two we try to > > provide everything in 3.x. So the only thing we don't do for the moment > > is the 2.x kernels, there is one in the vanilla sources if needed. > > > >> so I'm staying at 3.6.11... although I would feel allot more > >> comfortable with something like 3.4.33!! but its at 3.4.9... > > Personally for those machines I have decided to keep super stable (in > terms of updating software, at least as far as that is reasonably > possible with Gentoo) I have had good results with choosing whatever > Greg KH dubs his Long Term kernel (currenlty 3.4) and then simply > package.keyword that whole series: > > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0* # GKH stable > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.1* -* > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2* -* > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.3* -* > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.5* -* # EOL > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4* # GKH stable > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.6* -* # EOL > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.7* -* # not supported by NVidia 310.xx > > I don't mind keywording the minor-minor release from Gentoo, I find it > unlikely much will break in such a release.
I like this idea. But are there any plans in always stabilizing the latest long term kernel within a short timewindow? -Marc -- 0x35A64134 - 8AAC 5F46 83B4 DB70 8317 3723 296C 6CCA 35A6 4134
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