New Kernel - athlon - Mozilla

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:19:55AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

 > Unless there's an epoch that makes it look newer, this will indeed be
 > the case.

We can't/don't/won't use epoch in the kernel rpm.
I'm not clear on the reasons, but Arjan turned a funny colour when
I suggested the same.

 > I don't see the point of this change though.  Why not cal
 > it 2.4.22-21.whatever or 20.2030, or even 20.1.2030, such that it is
 > clearly newer than the already-released kernel?

because that number makes no sense to have in the revision string any more.

 > Version numbers shouldn't go back without a very good reason, IMHO.

Welcome to rawhide. The fix is simple in this case at least, and doesn't
break anything. *ponder*, how will the installer handle this if someone
tries to update a beta1 install with a beta2 CD when that appears ?

		Dave

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