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

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 22 March 2016 at 07:56, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just concluding this brief conversation by thanking everyone for their
> >> contributions and saying that the plans are --
> >>
> >> For EL6: To migrate to a kernel-lt-3.18.X series once the linux-3.10.X
> >> branch has been declared at EOL.
> >>
> >> For EL7: Not to provide a kernel-lt at this time but to review the
> >> situation in about 6 months.
> >>
> >> Alan.
> >
> >
> > It is about the time to revisit this discussion!
> >
> > Akemi
>
> Revisiting this discussion (as directed, above) . . .
>
> For EL6 there is no change to the plan announced in October 2015:
>
> "To migrate to a kernel-lt-3.18.X series once the linux-3.10.X branch
> has been declared at EOL."
>
> For EL7, six months have now passed and it is time to review the
> situation. As of yesterday morning there had not been any significant
> requests for a kernel-lt package set. Later in the day a request was
> received --
>
> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2016-March/003024.html
>
> That request prompted me to consider the upstream status of the
> various branches of the Linux kernel sources. Looking at the
> "releases" page [1] the following can been seen:
>
> [quote]
> Longterm release kernels
>
> Version Maintainer         Released   Projected EOL
>
> 4.4     Greg Kroah-Hartman 2016-01-10 Feb, 2018
> 4.1     Sasha Levin        2015-06-21 Sep, 2017
> 3.18    Sasha Levin        2014-12-07 Jan, 2017
> 3.14    Greg Kroah-Hartman 2014-03-30 Aug, 2016
> 3.12    Jiri Slaby         2013-11-03 2016
> 3.10    Greg Kroah-Hartman 2013-06-30 End of 2015
> 3.4     Li Zefan           2012-05-20 Sep, 2016
> 3.2     Ben Hutchings      2012-01-04 May, 2018
> [/quote]
>
> Informal discussions have identified that a kernel-lt package set for
> EL7 should be built from a 4.X source branch.
>
> The above table shows two options and my initial thought was to use
> the earliest available branch, that of 4.1. Considering the projected
> EOL for both 4.1 and 4.4, neither really looks to be as long term as I
> would like. So after another period of reflection I have decided to
> base the EL7 kernel-lt package set on the 4.4.X source branch.
>
> Your comments will be appreciated, please.
>
> Alan.
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
>

+1 from me. In any event, you are the one who decides, Alan.

Akemi
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