Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 08:43:13 GMT n952162 wrote: > Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > kernel, as in: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > > I currently have this situation: > > $ uname -a > Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:25:01 +0100, n952162 wrote: gentoo policy is that administrators need to keep their systems up-to-date.  The promise is, if they do so, the dependency system will be reliable. The kernel version is apparently an exception to this. 

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:25:01 +0100, n952162 wrote: > gentoo policy is that administrators need to keep their systems > up-to-date.  The promise is, if they do so, the dependency system will > be reliable. > > The kernel version is apparently an exception to this.  The updating > mechanism does

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 11:01:04 +0100, n952162 wrote: > Ah, maybe I have a theory what's going on ... maybe there's no news that > it's time to upgrade the kernel, because it's not meant that the kernel > necessarily needs to be upgraded ... except that it seems that the > virtualbox-modules package

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 2:56 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:25:01 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 12:57 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:25:01 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2/9/21 12:57 PM, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: > >> On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: > >>> n952162 wrote: > Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > >

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 12:57 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new kernel, as in: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade I currently have

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: > > n952162 wrote: > >> Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > >> > >> kernel, as in: > >>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > >> > >> I currently have this

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new kernel, as in:   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade I currently have this situation: $ uname -a Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 10:05, Dale wrote: > I'm trying to remember what that binary kernel thing is called. I just > skimmed the messages so it could be something else or not even in the > tree yet. I believe you're thinking of sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin (also available without -bin, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > > Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > kernel, as in: > >   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > > I currently have this situation: > > $ uname -a > Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020 x86_64 > GNU/Linux >

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On 2021-02-09, at 03:43, n952162 wrote: > > If an update requires additional steps, shouldn't that have appeared in the > news? No because how it's done is totally dependent on your needs. There's no one correct way to do it. Even in common cases, some may choose to use certain kinds of