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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 22:32:51 +0100 (CET)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: alpine-user@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: linux-lts vs. linux-edge
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Hi folks,

I was wondering about the packages linux-lts (main) and linux-edge 
(community). LTS suggests some kind of Long Term Support, the "more stable 
version" of the Linux kernel. But I noticed that both versions are 
basically the same, and have been for some time, according to their commit 
histories[0]: linux-lts was bumped to 6.1.8 on Jan 24, linux-edge on the 
same day.

So, my first question is: what's the rationale behind these packages? 
Looking at kernel.org, v6.1.8 *is* actually the current stable version. 
But what should -edge be? Maybe current mainline, i.e. the -rc versions?

The reason I'm asking is that I ran into a bug when upgrading from 
linux-edge v6.1.1 to v6.1.8 (external disks not recognized, yet to be 
bisected[1]) and I thought "Hah! I'll just go back to linux-lts", only to 
find out that both are the same versions now :-\

Does anybody know details behind these versions? I thought about posting 
to ~alpine/devel but that list didn't look too active and seems to have a 
spam problem too.

Thanks for your input,
Christian.

[0] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/commits/master/{main,community}/linux-{lts,edge}
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4fe9541e-4d4c-2b2a-f8c8-2d34a7284930@nerdbynature.de/
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