On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:58:08PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:43:31PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > What does it mean when there are two version numbers on a package. > > > > > > The -number is the Debian patchlevel: major.minor.patch-debpatch > > > > > So in > > linux-image-2.6.17-2-486_2.6.17-9_i386.deb > > It is Linux Image 2.6.17-2-486 (that is the package name) > > Version is 2.6.17-9 (basically the source version) for the i386 > architecture. > > Hope that helps. > > Here is the DPKG output(sorry for the LONG LINES (made as short as > possible) > > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-=========================-==========-====================================== > ii linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7 2.6.18-3 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 > ii linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 2.6.18-5 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 > ii linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7 2.6.18-8 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7 >
------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this is the package name, which is incremented with each new package release. --------------------------------^^^^^^^^ this is the kernel version number with major.minor.patch-debpatch. The deb patches are not sequential, I assume, because they may not necessarily release each patch level, or the package versions get upgraded without a package version increase (why, I don't know. maybe because the deb patch is not significant enough to call it a new version of the package). So you might install linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7 and get a kernel version 2.6.18-1. Then later, deb will upgrade that package, but not signifantly enough to change the package version number. So you do an apt* upgrade and the package linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7 gets upgraded (we've all seen this -- "you are installing a new version of the same kernel, you must reboot") so that now you are running the same package, but the kernel version associated with it is 2.6.18-2. At some point the put out a whole new kernel package version -- linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 with a new kernel version, say 2.6.18-3 and so forth. this is all a guess, and the numbers are made up. A
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