[elrepo-devel] Kernel-lt for EL6 and EL7

Pat Riehecky riehecky at fnal.gov
Fri Sep 25 09:25:39 EDT 2015


In a parallel question, are there any thoughts on building the el7 
kernel for el6 after the end of the 3.10-lt branch?

Pat

On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 11:04 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> Hi ELRepo users/contributors,
>>
>> There are two points we'd like to discuss with you regarding the
>> kernel-lt package.
>>
>> (1) Fairly soon, the linux-3.10.X branch will reach EOL. We need to
>> decide what we will do with the kernel-lt package for EL6. Chances
>> are, we will choose a new branch with a sufficiently long support
>> time-frame and transition to it. The most likely candidate will be
>> linux-3.18 (EOL: Jan 2017).
>>
>> (2) Since the release of EL7, we have been providing a kernel-ml
>> package but not kernel-lt. Should we now consider the provision of a
>> kernel-lt package for EL7? Perhaps it is still too early and we should
>> come back and ask in a future?
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Akemi
>> The ELRepo Team.
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Pat Riehecky
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