[CentOS-devel] a mainline kernel in centos repos

Fri Feb 6 12:36:22 UTC 2015
Vladimir Stackov <amigo.elite at gmail.com>

Ok, I'll be happy to put some effort to make CentOS and elrepo closer
to each other.

What is the starting point?
I mean something like
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
but for CentOS project.

And what about trust?
Don't you care if someone from a side (e.g. me) will maintain
dedicated kernel packages?

2015-02-06 15:01 GMT+03:00 Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>:
> On 06/02/15 11:46, Vladimir Stackov wrote:
>> Why not just distribute elrepo-like kernels where -lt will represent
>> latest long-term and -ml for mainline branch?
>
> someone is going to haveto maintain these, and it might be easier if a
> larger group was focusing on a smaller set of packages. having said
> that, if you offer to maintain whatever is the latest LTS kernel
> release, you are most welcome to do that.
>
>
>>
>> 2015-02-06 14:25 GMT+03:00 Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> lots of people in various SIGs and user side projects are keen on
>>> bringing up a mainline kernel, that tracks upstream closer than the
>>> distro kernel does.
>>>
>>> I'd like to start a conversation around which kernel we might be able to
>>> maintain as a group, that also helps most people solve the problems they
>>> are looking at.
>>>
>>> 3.18 seems to be the stable-release at the moment, but given that 3.19
>>> is just around the corner, should we try and aim for that ?
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
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Kind regards,
Vladimir.