Pre-release kernel versioning
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sun Apr 29 19:11:19 UTC 2007
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:13:19AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> The SPARC bootloader (silo) can't handle label names longer than 15
> characters. So, for example, when booty tries to automagically label a
> new kernel on Aurora, we get a label like:
>
> 2.6.22-1.3200.fc
>
> The more we overload that n-v-r, the less useful that label is.
silo can't be fixed ?
> Proposal:
>
> - Lose the leading 1. It really doesn't serve much purpose. It would be
> better to roll to 10000 if you have that many builds before the kernel
> increments.
it's the cvs ident, so it'll need some shell scripting to sed it
away or something.
> (with room for 2.6.22-10000.fc7 if we need it)
Eventually, it'll get that high.
Dave
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