On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel >> <a...@alectenharmsel.com> 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 >> > > Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I use?
Of course it does. As Alan said, there would not be any reason for it not to. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
