rawhide report: 20070108 changes

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mar 9 janvier 2007 17:02, Jeffrey C. Ollie a écrit :
> 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.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.20-rc4.tar.bz2

(Just to disprove this argument, you could push it a tad further and
suggest to distinguish between .tar.bz2, tar.gz & zip source archives in
rpm versions)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot