On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel <[email protected]> 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 and >> 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 Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
