> > > 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. > It's not just a separate mailing list, ELRepo is actually not a CentOS thing at all. It is totally independent. You can use ELRepo with any RHEL derived distro - such as RHEL, CentOS or SL. See http://elrepo.org/tiki/About ISTR that it was created to bring together in one place a bunch of repos that provided similar things in order to minimise repetition and confusion. P.