New Kernel - athlon - Mozilla
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 13:37:54 UTC 2003
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:59:33AM -0700, jdow wrote:
> Dave, does this mean that Red Hat is going off onto its own kernel tree
> for development?
By removing cruft from the version number ?
Old: kernel-2.4.22-20.1.2024.2.36.nptl.src.rpm
New: kernel-2.4.22-1.2030.nptl.src.rpm
the -20 was there to work around going from RHL8 to RHL9, and until
recently, people forgot about it. The .2.36 stuff is just CVS branch junk
that disappeared when merging from a branch to HEAD.
> If not it would be a major boon to sanity if the kernel
> version at least preserved the "2.4.22-X" format so that it is clear
> where the kernel development version ends and the Red Hat versioning
> begins.
kernel-2.4.22 - 1.2030.nptl.src.rpm
base ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
seperator----------^ |
|
Red Hat revision-----'
Note that 2.4.22 here is actually 2.4.22-ac1
> Could you share with us some of the thought process that went
> into the new versioning scheme? (Of course, this begs the question by
> presuming there was a thought process rather than a Dilbertian Manager
> Decision behind it.)
If anything, its now a lot simpler. Or did I miss something ?
Dave
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