On 10/26/2014 04:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés 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 was mostly asking Volker since he has vanilla-sources unmasked without specifying a version but is currently running the 3.12.23 kernel. Little crazy imnho, but whatever. > 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. Wow, daredevil right here ;). I usually wait until the current release gets to the 3rd or 4th revision before updating to make sure all the bugs are out. Had a few times where my laptop was not a fan of new kernels - 3.16.1 wouldn't boot, for example. > And with systemd, rebooting to a new kernel takes just a few seconds ;) Must be nice; my laptop is so old that it boots slowly regardless of my choice of init system. Alec
