[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0493 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sun May 28 13:21:29 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:42 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:

> I wonder if a change in the naming convention for centosplus kernels
> might be in order?  Had to think a bit to understand why yum was not
> showing me the new errata kernel until I realized that
> 
>         2.6.9-34.106.unsupported > 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL
> 
> in the sorting order.  I downloaded from a mirror and forced the
> install:
> 
> [root at tabb1 RPMS]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>         package kernel-2.6.9-34.106.unsupported (which is newer than kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL) is already installed
> [root at tabb1 RPMS]# rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:kernel                 ########################################### [100%]
> [root at tabb1 RPMS]# 
> 
> Similar problems for kernel-devel and kernel-doc RPMS.
> 
> If the name for the last centosplus/unsupported version had been
> kernel-2.6.9-34.unsupported.106 (or similar) the new version[s] would
> have been offered for installation, and since (I believe)
> 
> 	unsupported.106 > EL
> 
> for rpm/yum, the new centosplus kernels would still be installable if
> that repo is configured.
> 

OK ... looking at the naming convention, we have decided on a new name
for centosplus kernels.  This one is along the lines of what Phil
suggested, and in keeping with how we do other repos.

The new centos plus kernel based on the 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL kernel is going
to be 2.6.9-34.107.plus.c4.  This is because .106 needs to be upgraded.
There will be no extra numbers in future versions.

For all future kernels in the CentOS-4 CentOSPlus repos ... they will
exactly follow the normal upstream versions ... except that the '.EL'
will be replaced with '.plus.c4'.  So, here is an example of the kernel
RPM names will be:

kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm

kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm

(remember that due to the 106 before, this version will be
2.6.9-34.107.plus.c4, but future versions will be as marked)

This will make the CentOSPlus version an upgrade to main CentOS kernel
if the repo is selected ... and it will allow easy tracking, and it will
designate it as a CentOSPlus kernel.

We discussed the issue, and .plus.c4 I think is better than unsupported,
as several people have major issues with the unsupported word :)

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