On 06/13/2018 02:33 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Jun 13, 2018, at 4:47 PM, Ken Young <kenyis at rogers.com> wrote: >> Is anyone on the mailing list aware of anyone who supports older versions of CentOS kernels? Particularly, I am interested in getting security patches added to kernel-3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.src.rpm. Please let me know. > > As far as CentOS support, only the latest kernel is supported. This really means that *you* are now the only support for old kernels. > > 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.
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. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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