funny way of numbering kernel versions

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 17 17:40:38 UTC 2004



On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:

> $ rpm -qa kernel*
> 
> kernel-2.6.9-1.667
> kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.667
> kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.39
> 
> give the kernel the release-name ?
> 
> eg.
> kernel-fc2-2.6.9-1.667
> kernel-fc3-2.6.9-1.667
> kernel-fc4-devel-2.6.9-1.667

or it could be:

kernel-2.6.9-1.fc3.1.667

This change probably won't be a clean upgrade to the current
scheme - so migh require 'epoch' increment..

Satish




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