rawhide report: 20070108 changes

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Tue Jan 9 19:00:04 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 13:39 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 13:25, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > The tarball IMHO is not relevant. The upstream version is 2.6.20-rc4.
> > It's a pre-release. And we have rules for how to package those:
> > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines
> > Section "Pre-Release packages":
> > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-d97a3f40b
> >6dd9d2288206ac9bd8f1bf9b791b22a
> 
> The tarball used is important in this case.  The patches we prepare and such 
> are against the 2.6.19 tarball, NOT the 2.6.20.  The unmodified source we're 
> using is 2.6.19 and that defines the release of the package.

The first patch applied is the 2.6.20-rc4 patch. So actually all our
custom patches which follow it must be adjusted according to that.

So although the tarball is 2.6.19 the final kernel definitely is
2.6.20-rc4 + patches.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb




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