On 2024-04-16, Dr Rainer Woitok <[email protected]> wrote:
> Arve,
>
> On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 15:53:48 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Only LTS kernels get stabilised, so this information is readily available.
>
> I'm sure I don't understand this: According to "https://www.kernel.org/";
> kernel 6.6.27 is "longterm", but according to "eix" the most recent
> 6.6.* kernels are 6.6.22 and 6.6.23 which both are non-stable (well, I
> ran my last "sync" immediately before the profile upgrade, so this might
> not be current). I'm still using stable kernel 6.6.13 as my backup ker-
> nel, but this kernel is no longer provided by Gentoo. So, what precise-
> ly does LTS or "longterm" mean?
That means that all gentoo-sources stable kernels are "longterm"
kernel versions on kernel.org. It does not mean that all "longterm"
kernel versions from kernel.org are available as "stable" in
gentoo-sources.
It is a statement that "gentoo-sources stable" is a subset of
"kernel.org longterm".
It is not a statement that the two sets are identical.
In other words:
"ONLY LTS kernels get stabilized."
is a different statement from
"ALL LTS kernels get stabilized."
The former is true. The latter is not.
> But, to get back to the beginning of this discussion: if there is a
> risk that my aging hardware possibly can less and less cope with
> newer and newer kernels, should I put something like
>
> >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.7.0
>
> into file "package.mask" to stay with "longterm" 6.6.* kernels?
Yes: if you want to avoid getting upgraded to 6.8 when it gets
kernel.org "longterm" status and gentoo-sources "stable" status, then
a statement like that in in package.mask will keep you on
gentoo-sources 6.6 kernels (which are "longterm" on kernel.org).
Again: not all longterm 6.6.x kernel versions get marked as "stable"
for gentoo-sources. If you have not enabled the testing keyword for
gentoo-sources, then you'll only get the 6.6.x kernel versions that
the gentoo-sources maintainers have declared as "stable".
--
Grant
