On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:37 +0000, Duncan wrote: > -rX is an internal Gentoo release number. But with the kernel, you'll > note that they don't normally track the upstream 4th level release > numbers, so that ends up getting wrapped into the -rX number as well. > > Do note however that they don't necessarily exactly correspond. Thus, > 2.6.30-r1 may or may not correspond to upstream's 2.6.30.1. Generally, > there will be bumps about the same time, but if Gentoo finds and patches > other issues between upstream bumps, it might bump the -rX twice for a > single upstream 2.6.x.y bump, and the reverse occurs as well.
it make sense, thanks. raf
