[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Trial Baloon for Red Hat packaging

[Derek Atkins]

Thanks,

I see your point.  What happens if, someday, RedHat releases both an
x.y and x.y+2 kernel for the same RH Release?  Would they ever do
that?  In that case, should all the modules be in the same package?

-derek

"Frank Bagehorn/Zurich/IBM" <fba@zurich.ibm.com> writes:

> Derek,
> I completely agree with your first point, or the improved version with 
> 'rh' in it. To my knowledge that makes no problem for the 'rpm' program, I 
> already had packages with release numbers looking like this.
> However I don't see, why we need to add the kernel version, if the kernel 
> package delivers modules for RH stock kernels.
> When I look at the RH releases, then 6.2 was delivered with 2.2.14-5.0 and 
> is now at 2.2.19-6.2.7, 7.0 was delivered with 2.2.16-22 and is now 
> 2.2.19-7.0.8 and 7.1 was delivered with 2.4.2-2 and is now 2.4.3-12 . This 
> implicitely means RH 6.2/7.0 = 22 and RH 7.1 = 24. There was a 2.4.0-0.26 
> in the RH 7.0 preview folders, but I cannot imagine anyone using this.
> 
> Regards
> Frank
> 

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