[CentOS-devel] a mainline kernel in centos repos

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Fri Feb 6 12:01:25 UTC 2015


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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