CentOS - Feb 2018 - what is the centos/elrepo policy toward LTS kernels?

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

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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

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