On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > now i know the command, what happens when Linus releases 2.2.14 ? or are going
>unofficial or is 2.2 frozen pending 2.4.....?
>
>
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> Each Mandrake package has its own package version (from the maintainer)
> and a Mandrake version. Since we are in the 2.2.14preXX series,
> we call the package version 2.2.14, and when the 2.2.14-final is
> released, we will simply increment the Mandrake version number.
>
> Jeff
>
After 7.0, all prerelease, beta, or cvs snapshoted, packages will have a
decimal release. (like "kernel-2.5.2-0.1") This gets rid of some real
stupid name/version 'ing, and will help make upgradeing from cooker to a
stable release posible.
no more dumb rpms with dated versioning Woohooo!
