[elrepo] missing packages for kernel 4.9 version

[Phil Perry]

On 07/03/17 15:38, Pavlos Parissis wrote:
> On 07/03/2017 04:22 μμ, Leon Fauster via elrepo wrote:
>>> Am 07.03.2017 um 14:31 schrieb Pavlos Parissis <pavlos.parissis at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On 07/03/2017 01:47 μμ, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>>> On 03/07/2017 02:45 PM, Pavlos Parissis wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Today, I noticed that there aren't any packages for 4.9 kernel n
>>>>> http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el7/x86_64/RPMS/.
>>>>> It used to be the case a week before.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know what happened?
>>>>
>>>> They were superseded by 4.10
>>>>
>>>>    wolfy
>>>
>>>
>>> Kernel 4.9 is marked as LTS kernel and I was expecting to see kernel-lt-4.9
>>> packages. Do you have plans to provide those packages?
>>
>>
>> 4.9 in elrepo (EL7) as >mainline stable< kernel only - substituted by 4.10 now.
>>
>
> I understand that, what I don't understand is why we don't have "long term
> support" packages for 4.9, we only have 4.4 "long term support" packages.
>
> Cheers,
> Pavlos
>
>

Hi Pavlos,

Our official position is that we maintain one kernel-ml release and one 
kernel-lt release per version of RHEL.

kernel-ml is the current mainline kernel and kernel-lt is whichever long 
term kernel has been selected, in the case of RHEL7 this is kernel 4.4. 
This would typically be supported until upstream mark it as EOL, 
currently scheduled to be Feb 2018 for 4.4. At that point we would look 
to select another longterm kernel for our RHEL7 kernel-lt package.

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

The main reason we only support one kernel-lt release at a time is 
purely to do with resources. Alan single handedly maintains the elrepo 
kernel packages, and given the constant upstream release cycle and 
frequency of releases this represents a considerable undertaking and 
investment of his time. He has been doing this for elrepo since 2010 and 
to the best of my knowledge has never taken a holiday nor missed a 
release, supporting RHEL 5, 6 and 7 (Alan had actually been building 
kernels for his own private use for a lot longer than that, but we only 
convinced him to share his work with others through elrepo in 2010).

That said, if you really want a 4.9 kernel-lt, most of the hard work has 
already been done by Alan and it should be relatively trivial to take 
his last kernel-ml 4.9 release, bump the version for each subsequent 
release and build it yourself.

As a side note, as mentioned previously 4.10 has just recently been 
released and replaces 4.9 as the current kernel-ml, and Alan has already 
started work on the 4.11 kernel-ml package.

Hope that helps,

Phil