beehive?

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Wed Jul 14 17:41:07 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 19:35, Andreas Thienemann wrote:

> And out of curiosity: why does the kernel.src.rpm check for the existance 
> of /etc/beehive-root and if it does not exist changes the release tag?

to distinguish local (engineering) builds from "official" builds in an
automatic way; for the kernel the *exact* binary matters when decoding
oopses and the like, automatically distinguishing local rebuilds is
quite valuable in not wasting time on a mismatching kernel.

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