Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
>> The kernel-2.6.9-55 rpms for i386 are in 40rolling:
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> Question time... 
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> I suppose this is both OT and naive, but as I am coming from CentOS4 to SL5, I have "CentOS habits" in my mind.
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> What is the logic behind directory names in SL?
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> -- In CentOS, you have "4" as a rolling symlink to the latest available one:
> "4.0", "4.1", "4.2", "4.3", "4.4", "4.5", etc. You only get a fixed
> update when you point to that one exactly ("4.4").
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> -- As it seems, in SL things are different, and they're two weird
> names: "40rollling", which seems to play the role of "4" in CentOS, and
> "4x". Can I ask politely "what the heck is 4x (or 5x) for?" If the
> x-postfixed number is not the rolling one, nor a fixed update-number
> one, what is it good at?!
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> Thank you,
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> R-C

Hi,
I could have sworn that I had already written up a FAQ about this.  But it 
looks like I always just kept answering the question, so I just wrote one up.
Here is the link to the FAQ about that, it's fresh off the press.

https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/distro.versions

It currently only have info about "x" and "rolling", I'm writting the info 
about the version numbers now.

One thing to note is that CentOS doesn't have what we call a "rolling" area, 
which is our "beta" area in CentOS terms.  They have their beta (rolling) area 
on a completely different server so it doesn't get mixed up.

Troy
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