funny way of numbering kernel versions

[seth vidal]

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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