pre-release kernel release tag

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:24:44PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
 > > 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.
 >  
 > It's not a big deal, it's only numbers.  The motivation was that it didn't
 > get reset when we went from 2.6.22 to 2.6.23, and after one build hits
 > rawhide, it's too late.

For rawhide, I don't think it really matters too much.

	Dave

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