Raffaele BELARDI posted on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:37:03 +0200 as excerpted: >> (2.6.30 to 2.6.30.1 or .2, for instance, noting of course >> that those are the upstream versions, Gentoo uses -rX notation in place >> of the additional version digit, for its gentoo-sources packages.) > > I thought -rX was an internal Gentoo release number for ebuild. The > kernel is an exception, I guess.
-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. Occasionally there'll be an upstream bump, and then another one maybe two hours later the same day, if they found a brown-paper-bag issue (in LKML lingo, a really embarrassing mistake, such that one wishes to cover their head with a bag if they appear in public immediately thereafter), or if there's an exceedingly urgent but also exceedingly simple security fix. These would probably be wrapped into the same Gentoo -rX bump. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
