On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> 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 <new-version> > kerninst > > And that's it. Be aware that you need to provide your own kernel > configuration. > > Regards. > -- > Canek Peláez Valdés > Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México >
Understood. Thanks for sharing your kernel maintenance experiences.
