[elrepo] kernel-ml 5.12.9?

[Phil Perry]

Hi Joseph,

My apologies for our slow reply.

As we are not fortunate enough to be in procession of a time machine, we 
take a proactive approach rather than a reactive one. We rely on the 
published cut off date and time for upstream commits to any given kernel 
release, and are able to pull a source tarball ahead of the official 
announcement and leverage that time to build and distribute our packages 
so we may announce our release shortly after any official upstream 
announcement. We did jump the gun slightly with the release (but not the 
announcement) of 5.12.9, which you spotted!

Should any last minute changes be made upstream, then we can halt the 
release of our package pending any upstream changes and rebuild and 
release accordingly.

At present, we are currently in the process of building 5.12.10 ready 
for release on Thursday, all being well. So in answer to your question, 
we are building that from the source that will be tagged as 5.12.10 on 
Thursday. If those sources change between now and Thursday, we will 
rebuild accordingly.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Phil

On 03/06/2021 14:44, Joseph Christopher Sible wrote:
> Okay, now this kernel version really does exist, along with 5.4.124. But they were only committed upstream at 7AM UTC today, and the ELRepo packages were available since 11PM UTC 2 days ago. At least in my mind, the question still remains: what exactly were these packages built from?
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> Joseph C. Sible
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org> on behalf of Joseph Christopher Sible <jcsible at cert.org>
> Reply-To: EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 10:07
> To: EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
> Subject: [elrepo] kernel-ml 5.12.9?
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> I noticed that we now have a version 5.12.9 of kernel-ml in the repo. I didn’t see an email announcing that version here, and there appears to be no such version on kernel.org. What happened here?
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> Joseph C. Sible
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