[elrepo] missing packages for kernel 4.9 version

[Pavlos Parissis]

On 07/03/2017 08:58 μμ, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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 They were superseded by 4.10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
> 
> 

I fully understand the current situation, thank you very much for the detailed
explanation.

Cheers,
Pavlos

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