funny way of numbering kernel versions
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Nov 17 05:00:13 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 23:41 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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
>
2.6.9-1.650_FC4 will not be higher than 2.6.9-1.667
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