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

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov> wrote:

> Mostly it is a half formed thought, so ambiguity is not surprising!
>
> Lets say some user is tied into the 3.10 kernel on an el6 box for
> "reasons"[1], some kernel-lt users on el6 might find it comforting to switch
> to a "kernel-el7" branch.  With the code being el7 kernel - but packaged up
> for el6 systems.
>
> I'm not sure if this is
> a) a good idea
> b) has anyone actually interested
> c) builds with things other than devtoolset-3 compilers
> d) has the hardware support[2]
>
> I've no opinions on this and don't need the functionality myself. But I
> didn't see anyone float the concept, and who knows, it might be interesting
> to someone on the list.
>
> Pat
>
> [1] possibly not good ones, and possibly not real reasons
> [2] this could get super weird

Hi Pat,

That's an interesting idea and there could indeed be some use cases
for that sort of kernels. However, this may not fit in the ELRepo
Project as we build our kernels only from the source code straight
from kernel.org.

So, maybe this idea is for someone else ...

Akemi