[elrepo] kernel/kernel-lts separation

[Phil Perry]

On 10/10/12 09:30, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 11:21 AM, Nux! wrote:
>> On 10.10.2012 09:12, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2012 11:09 AM, Nux! wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Guys, is there a possibility to have the TLS kernels in their own
>>>> repo or would it be just spreading too thin? Maybe some hardlinks as
>>>> to not waste space.. I'm not using the lts kernel but I'm thinking
>>>> many do and they don't want to have the lts kernel updated by the
>>>> "latest" one.
>>>> I know people who run kernel-ml should only be using it with
>>>> --enablerepo anyway, but oh well, the idea just hit me so had to
>>>> share. :-) +1 here. not that "LTS" means much when 3.0.x was updated
>>>> twice in >2 weeks...
>>
>> It's not clear what you're +1 for. :)
> Oh well. +1 for separating LTS. "kernel-ml" is too broad now, covering
> 3-4 different versions.
>


Great suggestion. I agree, it makes sense to separate versions so yum is 
able to intelligently update within a branch.

How can we best achieve that? Repo separation is one method. Are there 
any other ways we could achieve it with some yum versioning trickery or 
is repo separation our only option - just thinking through the 
alternatives.