On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 08:45 -0500, David wrote: > I am using Rawhide, and I am curious about the git versions of > packages. > > For example, even though I have kernel 5.8.0-0.rc2, that kernel changes > to the latest git version about every 3 days for me. Right now even my > backup kernels are 5.8.0-0.rc2, but just an older git-version. > > I see about 10 other packages on my install that are git-versions. > > I plan to read and try to learn from the link below: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git > > Anybody have any thoughts or suggestions in why some packages are > git-versions > and some are not ? It is entirely up to the maintainer's discretion. There are various reasons for shipping an RCS snapshot as opposed to a release. In the case of the kernel it's just to get updated code more often than upstream cuts RCs. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
