On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26/10/2014 22:21, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> >> Do you know if vanilla-sources plays well with openrc, as that is what I use? >> Thanks. > > > Yes it does. There's no logical reason to think it doesn't. > > You do have to set some kernel options, but that is true for just about > everything in the kernel - you won't have support for hardware X unless > you enable hardware X in the kernel config :-) > > One of the additions with gentoo-sources is the very first menu item, > all it does is enable a bunch of stuff that supported init systems > (openrc and systemd) use - it's purely a convenience measure and doesn't > change the kernel itself per se. systemd for example will need cgroups > enabled, openrc needs udev-mount. It's all in the ebuild, and portage > throws an error is something required is not set in .config. > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > [email protected] > >
Terrific. Thanks.
