Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-10 Thread Alessandro Barbieri
Il Lun 10 Feb 2020, 03:08 james ha scritto: > On 2/9/20 7:26 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:55 PM james > > wrote: > > > > Sure the many of the wonderful folks that visit gentoo-user would > > participate, just a little bit? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-09 Thread james
On 2/9/20 7:26 PM, Michael Jones wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:55 PM james > wrote: Sure the many of the wonderful folks that visit gentoo-user would participate, just a little bit? I would be willing to help. However, if left to my own devices, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-09 Thread Michael Jones
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:55 PM james wrote: > Sure the many of the wonderful folks that visit gentoo-user would > participate, just a little bit? I would be willing to help. However, if left to my own devices, I would just close anything with no activity for 10 years, and remind the cc list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-09 Thread james
On 2/9/20 4:08 PM, Michael Jones wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:04 PM Michael Jones > wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?limit=0=changed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 4:04 PM Michael Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:25 PM Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:34 PM Michael Jones wrote: >> > >> > Honestly I'd rather see the 30 day stabilization policy apply to LTS >> > kernels vs. being stabilized faster. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-09 Thread Dale
Michael Jones wrote: > > Again, no animosity against anyone: > > But Rich, Linux-4.19.97 was released on Jan 17th, and then > gentoo-sources-4.19.97 was released on Jan 18th, > whereas https://bugs.gentoo.org/706036 was acknowledged to be fixed by > Linux-4.19.99 on Jan 29th, and it's now Feb 9th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-09 Thread Michael Jones
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:04 PM Michael Jones wrote: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?limit=0=changed > > > Apparently better than it used to be. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-09 Thread Michael Jones
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:25 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:34 PM Michael Jones wrote: > > > > Here's an example of how 4.19.97 being stabilized might have exposed > users to functionality breaking bugs: https://bugs.gent was released on > Jan 18thoo.org/706036

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:34 PM Michael Jones wrote: > > Here's an example of how 4.19.97 being stabilized might have exposed users to > functionality breaking bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706036 > > Honestly I'd rather see the 30 day stabilization policy apply to LTS kernels > vs. being

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Michael Jones
I'll start by saying that I appreciate all the work the Gentoo developers do, and by no means have any animosity for them for this, Here's an example of how 4.19.97 being stabilized might have exposed users to functionality breaking bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706036 Took me several hours to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Franz Fellner
That doesn't apply to the kernel. 4.19.97 got tagged on January 17. January 18. it was stable on amd64 and x86 - one day instead of 30. Here is the stabilization request: https://bugs.gentoo.org/705006 There were some issues and changes to the targeted versions. Am Fr., 7. Feb. 2020 um 19:18 Uhr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:23 PM Matt Connell wrote: > > On 2020-02-06 11:40, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > 5.4 has just become the newest LTS. > > I see that now. But my original question still stands as to why the > stable version of gentoo-sources is consistently a few versions behind > the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-06 Thread Matt Connell
On 2020-02-06 11:40, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > 5.4 has just become the newest LTS. I see that now. But my original question still stands as to why the stable version of gentoo-sources is consistently a few versions behind the latest LTS release.

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-02-05 22:14, Matt Connell wrote: > I know that gentoo-sources tracks on the most current LTS kernel > release, currently 4.19.97. 5.4 has just become the newest LTS. -- Ian