Applying kernel patches

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On Sep 6, 2004 at 22:25, Steve Blackwell in a soothing rage wrote:

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>So the .521 in kernel-2.6.8-1.521 means it's been patched 521 times?
Not quite. It means that some base has had 521 patches applied.
Notes that when the 2.6.7 kernel was updated to 2.6.8 in the
FC tree, the patch level did not start at 0 or 1.


>Is there some place that explains the naming conventions? I would guess  
>that the rc4 in 2.6.8-rc4-bk3 means Release Candidate #4 which then  
>turned into 2.6.8-1 but what about the bk3 bit? 
The rc4 does mean release candidate. The bk3 refers to Bitkeeper.


>Also is there somewhere  
>that lists the differences between a vanilla 2.6.8-1 kernel and the one  
>release with Fedora Core 2?
You will have to cheack the changelog for that.

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