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On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:37 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> -rX is an internal Gentoo release number. But with the kernel, you'll |
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> note that they don't normally track the upstream 4th level release |
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> numbers, so that ends up getting wrapped into the -rX number as well. |
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> Do note however that they don't necessarily exactly correspond. Thus, |
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> 2.6.30-r1 may or may not correspond to upstream's 2.6.30.1. Generally, |
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> there will be bumps about the same time, but if Gentoo finds and patches |
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> other issues between upstream bumps, it might bump the -rX twice for a |
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> single upstream 2.6.x.y bump, and the reverse occurs as well. |
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it make sense, thanks. |
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