On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I've been using vanilla-sources since September 2009, in all my machines. I use systemd, so having the latest kernel version doesn't hurt; a new vanilla-sources version is usually ready a few hours after Linus releases a new kernel, and gentoo-sources takes at least a few weeks, sometimes more. As to how do I maintain them, I wrote a little utility that I've been using from the last year or so: https://github.com/canek-pelaez/kerninst With it, after I install a new kernel using the normal portage procedure, I just do: eselect kernel set <new-version> kerninst And that's it. Be aware that you need to provide your own kernel configuration. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
