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From: donnie berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:05:40
Message-Id: 200307231503.49761.spyderous@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? by fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr (Alvaro Figueroa Cabezas)
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4 On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:46, Alvaro Figueroa Cabezas wrote:
5 > "Any of these suffixes may be immediately followed by a non-zero
6 > positive integer, e.g., linux-2.4.0_pre10. Assuming identical version
7 > parts, the suffixes are ordered as follows (lower means older): _alpha <
8 > _beta < _pre < _rc < (nosuffix) < _p"
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10 "Assuming identical version parts" is the section you seem to be missing.
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12 2.4.22 != 2.4.21
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14 so 2.4.22 would beat 2.4.22_pre2, but 2.4.22_pre2 would beat 2.4.21.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels? fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr (Alvaro Figueroa Cabezas)