[rhelv6-beta-list] kernel-release now appends the arch

[Bryan J Smith]

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 01:09 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> You are right with non standard, as the POSIX specification clearly talks
> about 'current release level' for -r and I don't see what the arch has to
> do with a release level, see
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uname.html

I don't see any "standard" defined that says the arch can't be part of
the release number any more than vendor version versus kernel version
and other things.

Wasn't that argument made a dozen years ago as well when distros started
adding EXTRAVERSIONS as well?  @-ppp


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