On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, is:
>         kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4
> the same as:
>          kernel-2.6.11.4
> plus/minus the Gentoo-specific patches?

possibly not.  the gentoo-sources package has its own revision numbers
(the -r* bit).  that's not saying that the changes in the
vanilla-sources (kernel.org with no extra patches) aren't included,
but there's no real association between vanilla 2.6.11.4 and gentoo
2.6.11-r4 aside from the fact that they're both based on the
kernel.org 2.6.11 release.  looking at the patches included in
gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r6 (latest stable gentoo-sources), it includes
the patches for 2.6.11.6, but there the numbers aren't guaranteed to
match up like that.

disclaimer:  i'm not one of the maintainers for gentoo-sources.  they
could have made a decision to hold revisions of gentoo-sources for the
new "stable" patches that greg kh maintains in order to keep the
revision numbers matching.

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trey

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