On Saturday 31 March 2007 00:55:10 Walter Dnes wrote: > 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?
Just watch your GLSAs, and you should be fine. If a package depends on a certain kernel version, it will list that in it's depend line, and emerge will complain that it can't satisfy that dependency. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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