Anyone know the reason why stable is still kernel 4.14?

zigford · n00b Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 23

I wonder if there should be another portage flag for longterm?
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

...what should that flag do?

Naib · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:05 pm Post subject:

Wouldn't that just be adding ~arch to package.keywords
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zigford · n00b Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 23

We have ~arch for unstable, arch for stable, another flag like !arch for longterm would set you on packages that have a longterm release option like the longterm supported kernel.
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

Gentoo arch and ~arch do not reflect the upstream status at all, they are purely representations of Gentoo support. That just so happens to align with an LTS kernel in this case. Some people whom I disagree with already think that arch is superfluous, but it does add considerable effort to package maintenance. A duplicate 'stable' category is not viable.

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

The "other flag" exists: p.mask versions newer than the LTS you want to stay on.

To unpack the XY problem here, if you're expecting a rolling release distro to automatically steer you between old kernels with years of differences between them, you're already screwed.