Bob Wya <bob.mt.wya <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I had a look at the kernel-2 eclass and my head started to hurt... Do > I need to wade into the weeds or is there a "short-cut" I can take to > go back to the earliest gentoo-sources 3.18 kernel build Might this help [1] ? I always keep at least 6 older kernels around, for this and many other reasons. If I hack at something (kernelish) then what the resultant effect is (on the kernel) is hard to remember 6 months laters. I do not do enough kernel hacking to warrant my own git repo, but I have considered that two. Using gentoo for about a decade now, I found it just easier to keep older kernels around, sometimes for years, but no more than 7 versions. I stay with amd64 and sometimes I boot up an old system, just to scp a kernel from one machine to another...... I have always found that older kernels, particularly less than a year old most always boot too. Sure there is a more modern, savvy method to keep old kernels around, so hopefully somebody else will pipe up about exactly what you need. Add to this the slobberingly stupid pace of linux kernel releases and you'll understand why lots of folks are archiving kernels (sources and binaries) from the stable branches...... Does systemd provide and tools for this? sorry, James [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade/en
