On Samstag, 31. März 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > Partial "df" output before unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 7325372 4401624 63% / > > > Partial "df" output after unmerging a bunch of kernels > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 11726996 4183616 7543380 36% / > > Yes folks, 3.14 gigs. Having gotten rather tired of doing this > manually... again... I went into /etc/portage/package.mask and added > > >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5 > > It won't hurt me now, but is there anything that might depend on newer > kernels? It's assumed I'll upgrade when required by a security alert. > Other than that, how long can I get away between kernel upgrades? >
besides critical bug fixes, security fixes and driver updates? IMHO masking never kernels is a really bad idea. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
