Pre-release kernel versioning

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Apr 29 19:11:19 UTC 2007


On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:13:19AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
 
 > The SPARC bootloader (silo) can't handle label names longer than 15
 > characters. So, for example, when booty tries to automagically label a
 > new kernel on Aurora, we get a label like:
 > 
 > 2.6.22-1.3200.fc
 > 
 > The more we overload that n-v-r, the less useful that label is.

silo can't be fixed ?

 > Proposal:
 > 
 > - Lose the leading 1. It really doesn't serve much purpose. It would be
 > better to roll to 10000 if you have that many builds before the kernel
 > increments.

it's the cvs ident, so it'll need some shell scripting to sed it
away or something.

 > (with room for 2.6.22-10000.fc7 if we need it)

Eventually, it'll get that high.

	Dave

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