rawhide report: 20070108 changes

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 16:35 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mar 9 janvier 2007 16:00, Jeffrey C. Ollie a écrit :
> 
> > If you look a the kernel .spec you will see that there is
> > "linux-2.6.19.tar.bz2" plus "patch-2.6.20-rc4.bz2".  So the RPM version
> > is reflecting the fact that it's the 2.6.19 plus patches.
> 
> I suppose
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
> +
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.19.bz2
> 
> is 2.6.18 + patches too then?

Yes, if the .spec was structured that way.  But I bet that the RH kernel
guys would just switch to the full 2.6.29 tarball.  But you can't switch
to a kernel release candidate tarball because there aren't any that I
know of.  Kernel release candidates are only released as patches against
the previous release version. (Jeez how many more times can I use
"release" in a sentence?)

> The versions people expect are those upstream chose and upstream is not
> calling it 2.6.19 postrelease but 2.6.20 prerelease. Now that the big
> Linus feature merges happen at 2.6.x-rc1 time there is absolutely no way
> post 2.6.x-rc1 kernels are closer to 2.6.(x-1) than 2.6.x

The rationale for the kernel versioning scheme has been discussed
endlessly in the past.  I suggest that we all take a trip to the
archives and refresh our memory.

Jeff

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