Kernel.org doesn't have 4.11 or 4.12 those are EOL. That's good reason for those 2.
2.02beta isn't even in portage anymore. They have 2.02 stable. We should at least use packages that exist in portage. There are also changes/bugfixes(GCC, EFI, VMs, etc) between 2.02beta3 (Feb 2016) and 2.02(April 2017) stable considering it was released little over a year later. https://fossies.org/linux/grub/ChangeLog On Mon, Nov 20, 2017, 6:14 AM Joost Ruis <[email protected]> wrote: > "We are still using grub2.02-beta3. Can we please upgrade to the stable > 2.02?" > No, without any motivaton why, we are not going to replace something that > isn't broken. > > "Once 4.14 is the status quo release, how do we feel about dropping 4.11. > 4.12 and 4.13 kernels from the repository?" > > Again, why should we? I only drop kernels that are EOL. > > I did propose to only ship LTS kernels on our iso images. But that is a > different discussion. > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Daniél Lecoq <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't see any point in dropping kernels from the repository, unless >> we're running out of space. There is always some peripheral device that >> worked better with the "previous kernel". >> >> On 2017-11-20 03:09, Jerrod Frost wrote: >> >> We are still using grub2.02-beta3. Can we please upgrade to the stable >> 2.02? >> >> Once 4.14 is the status quo release, how do we feel about dropping 4.11. >> 4.12 and 4.13 kernels from the repository? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
