[elrepo] 4.14 LTS

[David Ranch]

This is an interesting point.

I'd argue that in many respects, the ElRepo group is one of the primary 
reasons I've stayed on with Centos as it gives me newer kernels than 
what Redhat/Centos will.  Packages is an entirely different discussion 
and I digress.  Understanding all that, the 4.4.x kernels are already 
quite old.  I don't have a good understanding of all the work that goes 
on behind the scenes for the ElRepo team to release new LT and ML 
packages but would it be possible to add more LT kernels?  Maybe not all 
three of them but maybe 4.4 (for the conservative people), 4.14 (for the 
people who need a long life yet want a mostly modern kernel, and then 
the ML line for the bleeding edge users?  I know this becomes more and 
more additive over the years but maybe a little more can be done to keep 
Centos up to date?

--David


On 02/13/2018 12:23 PM, Leon Fauster via elrepo wrote:
>> Am 13.02.2018 um 20:42 schrieb Robin P. Blanchard <robin.blanchard at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>>> kernel-ml is the *current* mainline kernel release. It was 4.14 until 4.15.0
>>> was released. It will be 4.15.x until 4.16.0 is released, and so on.
>>>
>>> If you want to stay on a single LTS branch, you want kernel-lt which is
>>> currently 4.4.x, and will stay as 4.4.x as long as the 4.4 branch is
>>> supported upstream by kernel.org.
>>>
>> Thanks, Phil.
>>
>> I was under the impression that 4.14, 4.9, and 4.4 were all LTS branches.
> Yes, longterm on kernel.org
>
> elrepo.org is maintaining only two branches "longterm" (4.4 until 2022) and "mainline" (latest of kernel.org).

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