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Bug 877799 - sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel: out of date, bump to 6.0.2
Summary: sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel: out of date, bump to 6.0.2
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Distribution Kernel Project
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Reported: 2022-10-21 01:45 UTC by Zachariah Cabelly
Modified: 2022-10-22 15:28 UTC (History)
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Description Zachariah Cabelly 2022-10-21 01:45:54 UTC 
The current version of the Distribution Kernel in the ports is not the latest version that Fedora has a config for. Please, update this ebuild, so that way, AMD dist-kernel users can get a speed boost, along with better security

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-10-21 01:46:55 UTC 
5.19.x is not EOL yet and we always wait a few releases in to a new series to ship it.
Comment 2 Zachariah Cabelly 2022-10-21 01:50:04 UTC 
Ok, why do you not want to bump to Linux 6? There are a ton of performace improvements, and major version increments are more about Linus Torvalds running out of fingers and toes to count than any major breaking changes. You get me?
Comment 3 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-10-21 02:05:22 UTC 
We do it for every single release series, it's not about 5.19 -> 6.0. It is not based on a misunderstanding of kernel versioning.

We always wait until ~.3/.4/.5 to bump dist kernels to avoid regressions hitting our users. Typically we wait until N-s is EOL.
Comment 4 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-10-21 02:05:29 UTC 
(In reply to Sam James from comment #3)
> We always wait until ~.3/.4/.5 to bump dist kernels to avoid regressions
> hitting our users. Typically we wait until N-s is EOL.

*N-1