This is probably a question for a Red Hat insider. I've seen many thousands of RPM packages since I first installed RH 3.03 years ago, yet I have yet to figure out how their numbering *after the first three fields*. For example, these are two RPMs recently posted to rawhide: python-2.2.3-7.i386.rpm kernel-2.4.22-1.2093.nptl.i386.rpm How should one interpret the numbers to the right of the second dash? Specifically, "-7" and "-1.2093.nptl". Are these related in any way to version numbers used by upstream maintainers? How are they incremented and why? Is there any real pattern to this. Or is this some kind of random dart board exercise? --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
