Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:01:49 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:45:17PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
 > 
 > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:34 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:22:43PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > It would be nice to establish a rule to increment the version number
 > >  > immediately after the kernel release and have a suffix to indicate that
 > >  > it's a pre-rc version.  "rc0" is my personal favorite.
 > > 
 > > fwiw, rc0 is also what the Fedora kernel uses for versioning when we're
 > > shipping pre-rc1 kernels.
 > 
 > Thanks!  I didn't think of the possibility of anyone distributing
 > precompiled kernels from the "pre-rc" window, but if Fedora does it
 > (hopefully for beta-testers only), it should be absolutely clear that
 > it's not just a release with some minor fixes.

yeah, this is just in our 'development' pool (also known as 'rawhide')
Proper releases only ever get full point releases + -stable as updates.

	Dave

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