[CentOS-devel] centosplus kernel naming

Stephen John Smoogen

smooge at gmail.com
Fri May 30 17:07:41 UTC 2014


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.
-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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