[elrepo] Question: rough plans are for kernel-lt Centos6 support

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Leon Fauster via elrepo
<elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> wrote:
> Am 23.09.2015 um 23:40 schrieb Duke Pham via elrepo <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>:

>> I evaluate kernel-lt 3.10.xx (Current 86,87,..89) to run Docker 1.8 (Container).
>>
>> I have 2 questions:
>>
>> 1) Does anyone know what is rough long term plan for kernel-lt Centos6? Does Elrepo continue to release kernel-lt Centos6 being built from kernel.org for 1, 2 years or more?
>>
>> 2) Has anyone done any Docker 1.8 running experiment on kernel-lt 3.10.86 or newer?
>
> Upstream will stop the maintenance of 3.10 kernels in this month ...
>
> https://www.kernel.org/releases.html

Right. This means that we (ELRepo) will soon re-base kernel-lt to a
newer branch of long-term kernel. It could be 3.18 (EOL, Jan 2017).

Duke, you are a CentOS user. You might want to talk to centos-virt
people because they are offering kernel 3.18 as seen in this post by
Johnny Hughes:

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2015-September/004647.html

Akemi