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

[Alan Bartlett]

On 26 November 2017 at 15:01, Leon Fauster via elrepo
<elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> wrote:
> Am 26.11.2017 um 01:22 schrieb Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>:
>>
>> 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

>From the testing we have performed it appears that the acpid-2 is
usable with the EL6 distribution kernel-2.6.32-X.Y.Z.el6.x86_64

However, that said, the updated acpid-2 package [5] should not be
deployed by those who are not regularly using either of the kernel-lt
or kernel-ml package sets. Just because the version number is greater
than that of the distribution acpid-1 package does not make our
package "better" for use with the distribution kernel.

For completeness, I shall mention that at a personal level both my
RHEL-6 and RHEL-7 systems are used without any installed acpid
package.

Alan.

[5] http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2017-November/003936.html