[CentOS-devel] centosplus kernel naming

Fri May 30 18:56:31 UTC 2014
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 30/05/14 18:07, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 30 May 2014 11:02, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
>
>> As we gear up for the upcoming CentOS 7 release, we're tracking a few
>> things for the CentOSPlus kernel as well. One of the proposals (via
>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6828 ) is that we change the current
>> name of the centosplus kernel to be a bit more consistent with other
>> kernel names. The proposed new name would look like 'kernel-plus' or
>> 'kernel-centosplus'. This is in keeping with other kernel names such as
>> 'kernel-ml', 'kernel-xen', 'kernel-lt' etc. And allows for
>> /etc/sysconfig/kernel to be used to set the DEFAULTKERNEL as desired.
>>
>>
> kernel-plus sounds good. I think it would help deal with bugs a bit better.
> kernel-centosplus is a bit long but might be clearer in case a downstream
> wants to have its own plus kernel.
>
>

Another suggestion: kernel+