On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:34, Curtis Hildebrand wrote: > The explanation of kernel naming given in the spec file:
> http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SPECS/kernel/kernel-2. >4.spec?rev=1.306&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Thanks for that, it made interesting if mind-bogglingly confusing reading. (-: Would it be simpler to give -pre kernels a kind of negative version number? E.g. 2.4.21-2mdk then 2.4.22-+3mdk for 2.4.22pre3 then 2.4.22-1mdk for the first real 2.4.22? Since '+' collates before '0' I'm kind of hoping this will have the right effect, sorting preX after the previous kernel but befor ethe real one - having not read the code. Using '-' (so 2.4.22--3mdk for .22pre3) would confuse the parsing and make my eyes cross. Cheers; Leon
