On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > <[email protected]> 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? > > 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 >
Understood. Thanks.
