pre-release kernel release tag

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Aug 9 21:11:19 UTC 2007


On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:59:49PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
 > I propose we change the release format for snapshot kernels.
 > Now we get e.g.:
 > 
 > kernel-2.6.23-0.89.rc2.git2.fc8
 > 
 > and I suggest instead:
 > 
 > kernel-2.6.23-0.rc2.git2.89.fc8
 > 
 > That is, put the spec file version number last, not first.  This way, when
 > we forget to reset fedora_cvs_origin after a rebase, we don't have to wait
 > for the next kernel version to do it, just the next gitN.

Is it that big a deal?  I intended to only reset the origin after each
point release, so it doesn't really buy us anything being able to change
this with every -git.

	Dave

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