Category Archives: gentoo

This could appear as a strange request, but seems there are people that need some EOL version(s) of the Kernel. I’m just answering to the request. Alternatively go to kernel.org and download the archive(s). This is strongly discouraged by upstream but there … Continue reading →

Dear users, community, $people, I receive more or less two mail per week, so I decided to point this out. I know that my activity is notable in the ChangeLog because of the stabilization but the maintainer is not the … Continue reading →

It is a fact that in the last time the security team has a lack of manpower or in other words, the security bugs need more eyes. Please do not complain about that, because this post is not intended to … Continue reading →

I use it since a long time, so since it works pretty good for me, I want to share how to handle the spam for your @gentoo.org address with procmail. First, you need to say that procmail will filter your … Continue reading →

Since a long time I realized that is a pita every time that I keyword, receive a repoman failure for dependency.bad(mostly) that does not regard the arch that I’m changing. So, checking in the repoman manual, I realized that –ignore-arches … Continue reading →

Many times, when I had to set the make.conf on systems with particular architectures, I had a doubt on which is the best –jobs value. The handook suggest to have ${core} + 1, but since I’m curious I wanted to … Continue reading →

Unfortunately, all times we have a big list to keyword or stabilize, repoman complains about missing packages. So, in this post I will give you the solution to avoid this problem. First, please download the batch-stabilize-pretend script from my overlay. … Continue reading →

In the last time I’m helping the kernel team with the bump of vanilla-sources. It does not take much time because I’m doing it with a script. So, personally, I will continue to bump the following series: 2.6.32 3.0 3.2 … Continue reading →