audit releases in recent RHEL releases (eg 6 and 7)

[Burn Alting]

Thanks.

On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 08:09 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 05:43:59 PM Burn Alting wrote:
> > I know this more a question for Red Hat, but before I approach my local
> > Red Hat rep, does anyone on the list know why RHEL6 only implements up
> > to a version of 2.3.7 yet RHEL7 goes up to a version of 2.4.1.
> 
> Sure. The issue is that if I pushed 2.4.2 into rhel6 and you start using 
> features in it, then what happens when you upgrade to RHEL7? RHEL6 is ahead 
> and there will be feature regressions.
>  
> > Basically, I want to know if RHEL6 can accept some elements from the
> > 2.4[.0] release if I ask really really reeeeeeeeeally nicely.
> 
> File a rebase RFE request through your support channel and that would be a 
> good start. Technically there is no reason why RHEL6 can't use 2.4, the ABI is 
> the same.
> 
> -Steve