Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:23:44PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 14:13:23 -0500,
>   Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote
> >
> >>>The hundreds series is speific to the fedora version. Currently
> >>>f17 is 1xx and f18 is 2xx. The purpose is to keep f18 versions
> >>>ahead of f17 versions so that updates will work better.
> >..
> >>Presumably as new kernels come out the base number will change to
> >>reflect the currently supported versions of Fedora. So that for the
> >>3.9 kernel, f18  will probably be 1xx and f19 2xx.
> >
> >
> >That's a pretty arcane scheme. Would it work to use 17xx, 18xx and
> >19xx instead?
> 
> Probably. Putting the release after the dist tag would also probably
> work.

We're not changing it again.  It's just a number.  The only reason
anyone even noticed is because it was a jump, but we've already been
doing this for months.

josh
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