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. Alec
