New Kernel - athlon - Mozilla

[jdow]

From: "Dave Jones" <davej at redhat.com>

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:59:33AM -0700, jdow wrote:
>  > Dave, does this mean that Red Hat is going off onto its own kernel tree
>  > for development?
>
> By removing cruft from the version number ?
>
> Old:  kernel-2.4.22-20.1.2024.2.36.nptl.src.rpm
> New:  kernel-2.4.22-1.2030.nptl.src.rpm
>
> the -20 was there to work around going from RHL8 to RHL9, and until
> recently, people forgot about it. The .2.36 stuff is just CVS branch junk
> that disappeared when merging from a branch to HEAD.
>
>  > If not it would be a major boon to sanity if the kernel
>  > version at least preserved the "2.4.22-X" format so that it is clear
>  > where the kernel development version ends and the Red Hat versioning
>  > begins.
>
>      kernel-2.4.22 - 1.2030.nptl.src.rpm
> base        ^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^^
> seperator----------^ |
>                      |
> Red Hat revision-----'
>
> Note that 2.4.22 here is actually 2.4.22-ac1
>
>  > Could you share with us some of the thought process that went
>  > into the new versioning scheme? (Of course, this begs the question by
>  > presuming there was a thought process rather than a Dilbertian Manager
>  > Decision behind it.)
>
> If anything, its now a lot simpler.  Or did I miss something ?

The only problem I see, Dave, is with updates to existing installs. And
as long as it is moving from something like 2.4.20 to 2.4.22 it should
work.

{^_^}