[CentOS-devel] centosplus kernel naming

On 05/30/2014 06:02 PM, Jim Perrin 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.
> 
> This change would only be for CentOS 7.
> 
> Thoughts, comments, questions, flames?
> 
> Please speak up with support for or against this change.

kernel-plus gets my vote,

it then also makes room in the same namespace for things like kernel-lts
or kernel-xen or kernel-cloud and friends. Not that I am saying were
going to do any of these, but just in case.


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