New Kernel - athlon - Mozilla

[Jack Bowling]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:41:03PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 11:27, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Sep  8, 2003, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > We had this discussion a week ago internally. I see no reason to rehash
> > > it when we reached concensus to make the change.
> > 
> > The change is that the 2.4.22-20.1.2024.etc version number was pushed
> > to RHN.  After this is done, there's no going back.  If we stick to
> > the renumber change, any new kernels pushed to RHN will be considered
> > older than what's in there now, so we won't get the newer kernels
> > tested.
> 
> No, there is going back.  Remember, you're running rawhide.  Mistakes
> get made and by having active development pushed into an RHN channel
> daily, if you're pulling from that, sometimes you have to do things by
> hand to fix them up.  This is one of those cases.  

This may be tangential here....but how does this topic jibe with Havoc's
statement this past summer that "Red Hat would like our kernel to be
closer to mainstream..."

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Jack Bowling
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