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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18
From: Thomas Duffy <Thomas.Duffy.99@alumni.brown.edu>
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On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 14:08, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> We can avoid this kind of mess in the future if the "-rc*" releases
> really are "release candidates" instead of "just another diff".
> Ie. they are done as patches _and_ tarballs, then the final can just
> be done with a "cp" command.

the problem with that is the top level Makefile still needs to be
changed.  the last thing I want is to be running a 2.4.18-rc3 kernel and
have uname tell me it is 2.4.18.

-tduffy

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