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

Fri Feb 23 08:46:20 UTC 2018
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> 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

  ah, was not aware there was a separate mailing list for that, my
apologies.

rday