Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-22 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote The hundreds series is speific to the fedora version. Currently f17 is 1xx and f18 is 2xx. The purpose is to keep f18 versions ahead of f17 versions so that updates will work better. .. Presumably as new kernels come out the base number will

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 14:13:23 -0500, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote The hundreds series is speific to the fedora version. Currently f17 is 1xx and f18 is 2xx. The purpose is to keep f18 versions ahead of f17 versions so

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote The hundreds series is speific to the fedora version. Currently f17 is 1xx and f18 is 2xx. The purpose is to keep f18 versions ahead of f17 versions so that

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-22 Thread Josh Stone
On 01/22/2013 11:28 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: 7xx, 8xx, 9xx, 0xx, The first number of a Fedora release seems mostly superfluous. 9xx-0xx breaks the goal that updates will work better. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:44:11AM -0800, Josh Stone wrote: 7xx, 8xx, 9xx, 0xx, The first number of a Fedora release seems mostly superfluous. 9xx-0xx breaks the goal that updates will work better. Also would be unnecessarily confusing. It's not like we're running out of numbers here. --

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:23:44PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 14:13:23 -0500, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote The hundreds series is speific to the fedora version. Currently f17 is 1xx and f18 is

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On 22 Jan 2013 20:35, Josh Boyer jwbo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:23:44PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 14:13:23 -0500, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote The hundreds series

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-19 Thread Veeti Paananen
On 01/19/2013 12:55 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Joshua C. joshua...@gmail.com wrote: Some days ago the version number for the f18-kernels was changed to 20x as in kernel-3.7.3-205.fc18. Is there a special reason for this? Are the first 200 numbers reserved for

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Joshua C. joshua...@gmail.com wrote: Some days ago the version number for the f18-kernels was changed to 20x as in kernel-3.7.3-205.fc18. Is there a special reason for this? Are the first 200 numbers reserved for something? Yes, read the kernel meeting notes