> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:44:21AM -0600, Brian Millett wrote: > > I am a bit confussed as to the versions of the kernel in rawhide. > The only reference is from Dave in: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/msg00894.html > > > > "Ignore the version numbers, they're irrelevant between the > > streams right now." > > > > I see that in rawhide are "kernel-2.6.9-1.650_devel*" packages. The > latest that I yumed was kernel-2.6.9-1.667. > > Here's what happened (version numbers here are not exact, but > used as example). > > Before FC3 'went gold', work was happening in 'devel'. > When it got to revision 649, it was branched into an FC3 dir. > FC3 then got more updates and fixes, and eventually ended > up at rev 667. > > Instead of incrementally adding each change that went > into FC3 one-by-one into devel/, I added them all > wholesale into rev 650 of devel. > > So they contain pretty much the same stuff, but > due to the way I did the commits, it has a lower > number. I'm going to 'cheat', and bump up > rawhide a few hundred revs before I do another build > which should ease the confusion a little over > 'which is newer'. Thank you. Nice answer. -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn
