[arch-releng] Linux-lts

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:17:39 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> On 04/24/2012 02:01 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> > Am 24.04.2012 18:32, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
> >>> For configs/releng, the most easy and qucky is adding linux-lts to additional packages.*, rework build.sh (s/vmlinuz/vmlinuz-lts/), remove linux pkg, modify syslinux/*.cfg adding "earlymodules=loop loop.max_loop=16" to each kernel command line and disable generation of efiboot.img ;)
> >>>
> >>> I think that is all.
> >> maybe we should add a parameter to archiso that lets you choose a kernel. good idea? bad idea? just a thought..
> > Linux 3.0 requires old workarounds that have been removed now (see the
> > part I quoted from Gerardo). We would have to keep maintaining those.
> >
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> Also there is another point [#1].
> 
> [#1] 
> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2010-January/000796.html
> 

right!