spec hacks for vanilla and git-based kernel rpm builds

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:00:59AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
 > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 11:57 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > Also, anyone have thoughts on re-versioning, at least in the vanilla
 > >  > case, so as to more accurately describe what's being built? For example,
 > >  > the above is 2.6.22-rc4-git6, so I'm a fan of the package that gets
 > >  > churned out being kernel-vanilla-2.6.22-0.1.rc4.git6.fc8 or some such
 > >  > thing, instead of kernel-vanilla-2.6.21-1.3243.fc8.
 > > 
 > > I'd like to give this a shot for f8.  Doing it for the -vanilla packages
 > > is a 'must-have', and if it works out there, there's no reason not
 > > to do it in all the packages.
 > 
 > Yay!

There's another reason I'd like to get this done for F8.
I'd still really like us to ship 2.6.23 for f8, but with the shorter
devel schedule, it's unclear if it's going to land upstream in time.
We've shipped -rc's as GA kernels before, but I always felt 'dirty' for
doing this (especially when we name them incorrectly).
Shipping it with 'rc3' or whatever in the title seems a little more
honest at least about what we're shipping, and at the same time,
it prevents bad reviewers from writing "Fedora still ships with a 2.6.22
kernel".

	Dave

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