Bug 579684 – sys-kernel/linux-headers - please keep matching versions for LTS

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Tomáš Mózes 2016-04-12 05:52:50 UTC]

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3d8dc12d9819accff745885ab065c9ba423ac1e4

sys-kernel/linux-headers: drop old non-LTS versions
Mike Frysinger, Tue, 15 Mar 2016 02:51, commit 3d8dc12d
linux-headers-3.19.ebuild, linux-headers-4.0.ebuild, linux-headers-4.1.ebuild, linux-headers-4.2.ebuild

Why is 4.1 being dropped, when it is an LTS (https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html)

Suppose you have a few servers. When 4.1 comes out, you install kernel 4.1 there with the headers 4.1 (as it is the latest and matching). Now after time, we remove 4.1 headers from gentoo and you install new machines, but they will have headers 4.3, will you upgrade on some of your machines to what's next near available on gentoo? For example to 4.3 - so on some you will have headers 4.1 on some headers 4.3 or you push 4.3 everywhere and recompile glibc? How will you know that even with any further 4.x it will work and until what version? When you install 4.1 you know it works, because it worked on all your servers you installed before.

Can we please leave the maching linux-headers for linux sources that are LTS? No updates on them, just keeping them in the tree like we keep the old 2.4 ones?

Thank you

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2016-04-12 08:06:08 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 577460 ***