[elrepo] When will kernel-lt jump to a newer version?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 6:29 AM Michiel Klaver via elrepo
<elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> Hello elrepo,
>
> The current kernel-lt version 4.4 seems to lag behind the current 3.10 kernel found in RedHat/CentOS 7, which receives a lot of new stuff backported.
>
> kernel.org lists two newer versions labeled as Long Term supported: 4.14 and 4.19
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> Also, since RedHat/CentOS version 8 is released, shipped with kernel 4.18, would it be possible to upgrade the kernel-lt package to one of these newer versions?
>
> Kind regards,
> Michiel Klaver

Here is the mailing list post that discusses the point you are asking:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2018-September/004454.html

Also, I'd like to let you know that CentOS offers the 2 LTS kernels
you referenced:

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/x86_64/  kernel 4.19
http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/kernel/x86_64/     kernel 4.14

What they are for is explained by Johnny Hughes in this post:

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-March/171824.html

"we will be maintaining them for major updates from kernel.org as
required, especially CVEs released from kernel.org."

You might want to take a look at those kernels and see if they fulfill
your needs.

Akemi