Linux 6.1 should be the new LTS version, but it doesn't look like this in pacman

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kernel 6.2 was released yesterday.

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and now it’s in core, just like I expected for this time.

yeah, but not even in testing by now. Given the record, it will arrive there tomorrow or wednesday, and will be propagated to core earliest 1-2 days after the .1 release hits testing, which means by the weekend, earliest, like I already stated above.

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I confirm:

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I’m downloading it now with sudo pacman -Syuw

It would be much more straightforward if the LTS kernel could regenerate like Doctor Who :wink:

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got it!

❯ uname -r
6.1.12-1-lts
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Linux 6.2 is in testing repository now.

uname -r
6.2.0-arch1-1
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So now if I install the LTS kernel, how will I replace it with linux one I run now? Should I just remove it?

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no : linux LTS and current will be the same ( with different names) , but version current 6.1 is coming !

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linux-lts 6.1.13-1 has just hit the core repo, and linux 6.2 is still in testing, so I have the bizarre situation where the LTS kernel is ahead of the main kernel on my computer :exploding_head:

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Yes, really strange

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It is not even mentioned on this page as an LTS release:

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:wink:

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Interesting… I’m not brave enough to tell the Arch maintainers to rename the linux-lts package though :wink:

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its labeled correctly on the page that matters:
https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

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Solution? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Consider proper sense definition, when the LTS is newer than standard linux :rofl: :rofl:

There is always a first time for everything!!
We should mark this date!! :pushpin:, like with the grub event :rofl: :rofl:

We really need to recalibrate our Crystral Balls!!
:crystal_ball: :hammer_and_wrench:

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2023-02-22_22-10
So much for that :heart_eyes: :handshake:

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You mean :clown_face: balls?!
I have big balls, calibrating them all the time…! :rofl:

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that will actually be the case for some more days:

So far, no 6.2.1-rc1 has been propagated on LKML which means that such a .1 release is still at least 2 days in the future which in return means that 6.2 will remain in testing for at least 3 more days. Unless they (Arch maintainers) decide to be really adventurous and move the 6.2.0 Kernel to core. Looking at the new Kernel-bugs at https://bugs.archlinux.org that arrived after 6.2 was added to testing, that is very unlikely.
The only reason why a minor release would be made without an RC on the Kernel Mailing List is in case of a very critical CVE fix contained, and nobody wants that.

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That looks to me like whomever maintains the lts screwed up.

It still doesn’t make sense. Even the kernel team manual posted doesn’t seem to think 6.1 is lts. . . . I don’t know why or who is doing the lts kernel, but I think they meant to have updated the testing repo and not core.

But the whole point if having different kernels is they are. . . Different lol.

So, I don’t have a clue what’s going on over there, but there’s a first time for everything. Very very strange indeed.

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They didn’t screw up, they planned it:

and the only place where a LTS kernel needs to be declared is in the LKML and here:

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Planned and executed …flawlessly! :wink: