spec hacks for vanilla and git-based kernel rpm builds

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 05:50:13PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
 > On 02/07/07, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
 > > 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".
 > 
 > Sort of related to this - it's (usually? often?) the case that the
 > shipped kernel is based on a "stable" point release - eg. on this F-7
 > box, the kernel is based on 2.6.21.2 according to the %changelog, and
 > yet the kernel rpm is kernel-2.6.21-1.3228. Would it not be sensible
 > to also add that last point number?

Sounds sensible.  I did try a long time ago (when 2.6.x.y first began)
and it broke something which I now forget, but it's probably something
that just needs a bit more thought.

 > ps. Sorry to Dave for sending this mail to him alone rather than the list
 > pps. Why does this list not set the Reply-To to the list rather than
 > the message sender?

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

	Dave

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