[CentOS] what is the centos/elrepo policy toward LTS kernels?

Fri Feb 23 08:42:31 UTC 2018
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   i'm sure there's a simple answer to this -- i already understand
> that newer kernels than the ones shipped with the official release
> aren't officially supported but there is the elrepo kernel repository
> here:
>
>   http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el7/x86_64/RPMS/
>
> with a mixture of long-term (lt) and mainline (ml) kernels. i assume
> that the mainline kernels pretty closely track the latest kernel
> release but that's not the one i'm interested in.
>
>   if i was interested in the additional longevity of the LTS kernels,
> i can see that 4.4 is available. but the most recent LTS kernel was
> 4.14, was it not? so why is a 4.14 "lt" kernel not available in that
> repository?
>
>   i am obviously unclear on the policy used to determine which kernel
> versions end up in that repository.
>
> rday

You want to ask elrepo-related questions on the elrepo mailing list.

But here's the post that would answer your question:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2018-February/004120.html

Akemi