[CentOS-devel] centosplus kernel naming

Fri May 30 21:56:12 UTC 2014
Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff at redhat.com>

On 05/30/2014 05:36 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
> How about kernel-cplus as a compromise to the above.

makes me think of a language & not centos...