Re: Packaging RC and -git releases

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:20:41AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm curious as to how folks here package up RC and -git releases
> across the various distros.  For example, Fedora currently packages
> 2.6.20-rc4 as kernel-2.6.19-1.2906.fc7 given that it's still based on
> the 2.6.19 tarball and applies the 2.6.20-rc4 patch at build time.
> 
> What other schemes are being used out there?

SuSE is doing the same, it looks like a kernel-2.6.19 as far as RPM is
concerned.  But as this is in our "Kernel-of-the-day" section, it's not
a big deal as long as the number keeps getting incremented properly for
RPM to handle it.

Gentoo has both a -rc and a -git kernel package, although I don't think
the -rc kernels have been updated in a long time due to no one really
using them.  I think the -git kernels get make "automatically", but
haven't looked in a while.

thanks,

greg k-h
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