[elrepo] LTS kernel EOL

[Shawn Asmussen]

Well, for me the compelling reason would be the same reason to use an LTS
kernel over the stock RHEL/CentOS one. The ability to use a less out of
date kernel. I think that if enough years pass, people who are wanting to
switch away from the kernel that ships with the OS will become less
interested in switching to an LTS kernel that is itself several years old.
Now, we can always take the most recent source package available for the
branch that we want and modify it to compile our own RPMs for the current
version of that branch (Like you can currently do if you want a current 4.9
kernel), so it's not like we don't have any options to work around this,
but I just thought that an increasingly aging LTS kernel version would
begin to become less useful over time.

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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Shawn Asmussen <shawn.asmussen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> As I understand it, the current policy is to stay with one LTS kernel
>> version until it is EOL'd, and then move to a new one. I was wondering if
>> the recent change to the lifetime of the LTS kernels will affect this
>> policy. As it stands now, with the current policy, the 4.4 kernel would be
>> the version of choice for the elrepo LTS packages for another 4 years.
>>
> ​
> Right. ​
>
> ​Looks like ​kernel-lt 4.4 for el7 will continue until Feb 2022 unless
> there is a compelling reason to change it to a newer LTS.
>
> Akemi
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