funny way of numbering kernel versions

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:32:13PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
 > Is there some deeper significance in a version numbering for the
 > current kernel from rawhide?  The previous one was 2.6.9-1.667 and
 > the one which showed up recently, with a build date "Mon 15 Nov 2004
 > 05:58:14 PM MST" is 2.6.9-1.650_devel.  Of course yum will not pick
 > it up as already a "newer" one is quite likely installed; even if
 > its build date is "Tue 02 Nov 2004 01:24:30 PM MST".  Even 'rpm' has
 > to be gently persuaded before it will stoop to installing something
 > so "older".
 > 
 > My guess is that this will quite likely limit an exposure of this
 > kernel to testers.
 
I goofed. Next one goes out as _FC4 instead of _devel

sorry,

		Dave