Subject: Re: [bug#66968] [PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: add linux-libre-stable & linux-libre-longterm

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:36:10 +0900

Hello,

Michael Ford <[email-masked]> writes:

>>>From dbe93718ea3dbae9d3e4795d0cea239cd3d6a674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: fanquake <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 18:31:55 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: linux-libre: add linux-libre-stable &
>  linux-libre-longterm
>
> A project I'm involved with would find it convenient to have pointers to
> the current stable / longterm kernel header branches, without having to
> specify an exact version. This way, we can point to i.e the longterm
> branch, and with each time-machine "bump", continue to have whatever the
> current longerm branch happens to be. So I'm submitting this patch for
> discussion / inclusion. Obviouly one overhead is remembering to keep
> these variables in sync whenever the status of the longterm/stable
> branches changes.
>
> * gnu/packages/linux (linux-libre-stable): New variable.
>   (linux-libre-longerm): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/linux.scm | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> index 95a66e3d6a..a50526734e 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> @@ -790,6 +790,8 @@ (define-public linux-libre-headers-5.15.49
>
> "13zqdcm4664vh7g57sxbfrlpsxm7zrma72mxdfdz7d9yndy2gfv8"))
>
>  (define-public linux-libre-headers linux-libre-headers-5.15.49)
> +(define-public linux-libre-stable linux-libre-headers-6.5)
> +(define-public linux-libre-longterm linux-libre-headers-6.1)

Sounds like a reasonable thing to have.  Leo, Wilko, what do you think?

Reviewed-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail>

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Thanks,
Maxim