Numbering conventions

[Howard Owen]

Progeny is the Linux systems company founded by Ian Murdock of Debian
fame. They run a "transition service" for RH 7.2 7.3, 8 and 9. Their
numbering scheme is name-base-version.progeny.n .. So the indicated
kernel:

	kernel-2.4.20-31.9.progeny.7.athlon.rpm

is the 7th Progeny patch to the base RHL 9 kernel. There is no way to
easily compare this with the legacy kernels, because they are the
product of two different patching processes. The only way to tell is to
grab the source RPMs and compare the patches between the two. It's
likely that they have chosen similar approaches to similar problems,
just as it's likely that they have diverged on some. 


On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:41 -0800, Brian T. Brunner wrote:
> Yes, the version numbering reads from left-to-right
> 2.4.20.99 is before 2.4.21.1
> 
> 'legacy' indicates it is from the fedora-legacy project; progeny is unknown 
> to me except an ISP brand name.
> 
> athlon. vs i386 vs <none> indicates whether the rpm is built on/for a particular 
> architecture.  .i386 runs anywhere (tm) but .athlon is not guaranteed on i686 or 
> x64 architecture.
> 
> Brian Brunner
> brian.t.brunner at gai-tronics.com
> (610)796-5838
> 
> >>> fedoraleg_form at mm-vanecek.cc 03/28/05 01:51PM >>>
> I am getting a little confused about the numbering conventions.
> 
> For example, how does (if it does)
> 
> kernel-2.4.20-31.9.progeny.7.athlon.rpm
> 
> compare with 
> 
> kernel-2.4.20-42.9.legacy.athlon.rpm?
> 
> Can I assume that the legacy version is a more current version than the progeny? 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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