[elrepo] The kernel-lt Package Set and RHEL6 - Going Forwards.

[Leon Fauster]

Am 26.11.2017 um 01:22 schrieb Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>:
> 
> On 17 November 2017 at 18:58, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
>> For a number of years, the kernel-lt package set for EL6 has been
>> based on the linux-3.10.X long term support branch.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Upstream, at kernel.org, the linux-3.10.X long term support branch has
>> now been declared end of life.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Kernel-lt-3.10.108-1.el6.elrepo is dead. [1]
> 
> Kernel-lt-4.4.X-1.el6.elrepo lives. [2][3][4]
> 
> Anyone making long-term use of our kernel-lt (or, indeed, kernel-ml)
> package set should also give consideration to updating the base
> distribution acpid (version 1) package with version 2 that is
> available from the elrepo-extras repository. [5]

Just to clarify, that package is backward compatible to the distro kernel?

Thanks,
Leon