2.6.15

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Jan 3 17:55:28 UTC 2006


Am Dienstag, den 03.01.2006, 10:24 -0500 schrieb Dave Jones:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:16:31PM +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
>  > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/kernel/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2.sign?rev=1.1&sortby=date&view=auto
>  > >* Tue Jan  3 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
>  > >- Update to 2.6.15 final.
>  > Nice milestone :-)
>  > Just wondering about version numbering in Fedora, how come the rawhide 
>  > kernel has been named 2.6.14-1.x when it has clearly been tracking 
>  > 2.6.15-rcx-gitx
> 
> iirc it confuses rpm when faced with decisions like
> "which is newer, 2.6.14.1 or 2.6.14-git1"

Thats true. In Fedora Extras for example something like this would have
to be used:

Version: 2.6.15
Release: 0.rc1.git1

to circumvent problems until

Version: 2.6.15
Release: 1

is released.

> So we make its life simple, and stick with a 2.6.x-CVSident_$releasever

I disagree. IMHO is confuses users, journalists (they wrote "FC4 is
based on a 2.6.11 kernel" -- but in fact it was 2.6.12rc5) and
packagers, that sometimes have to add patches like this

-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,15)
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,14)

to their packages. Such patches also need to be applied on a case by
case basis in the spec file in case the package is build for a real
2.6.14. 

/me was bitten by a problem similar to this example just some days ago

CU
thl
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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