[CentOS] CentOS Kernel Support

Thu Jun 14 14:26:27 UTC 2018
Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:16:55PM -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:
> > > You might be able to pay Red Hat for an Extended Update Support
> > > release of RHEL7 that has a similar version
> > > (kernel-3.10.0-514.51.1.el7) but support ends November 30 2018.
> > >
> > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus
> > >
> >
> > The src.rpm for that kernel is probably available somewhere.
>
> I'm fairly certain you cannot download the SRPM for EUS kernels.  You
> might if you're a Red Hat customer paying for that product (but don't
> take my word for it).
>
> EUS 7.3.x support is going away soon enough that the real answer is to
> plan to migrate to supported RHEL/CentOS kernels.
>
>
I agree for the format of release (SRPM), but in any case Red Hat should
provide the sources for the changes, as the kernel is GPL-2.0
Then one can manually try to merge them in a patched kernel in some way...
Gianluca