From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgPAB-0003lN-QP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:11 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id DC219E0856; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 766EFE07C0; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EB7E07C0 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MgJdJ-0003l8-Cj for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:37:53 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.21.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:37:53 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:37:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: problem with multi-channel alsa on hda-intel Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1251182354.5043.31.camel@localhost> <1251279423.5048.6.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 47d27848-c39a-404f-a2ea-56d6ad6dc975 X-Archives-Hash: e8bb9d88d588ce5051cb6faba44f26f5 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 plac= e >> of the additional version digit, for its gentoo-sources packages.) >=20 > 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=20 note that they don't normally track the upstream 4th level release=20 numbers, so that ends up getting wrapped into the -rX number as well. Do note however that they don't necessarily exactly correspond. Thus,=20 2.6.30-r1 may or may not correspond to upstream's 2.6.30.1. Generally,=20 there will be bumps about the same time, but if Gentoo finds and patches=20 other issues between upstream bumps, it might bump the -rX twice for a=20 single upstream 2.6.x.y bump, and the reverse occurs as well. =20 Occasionally there'll be an upstream bump, and then another one maybe two= =20 hours later the same day, if they found a brown-paper-bag issue (in LKML=20 lingo, a really embarrassing mistake, such that one wishes to cover their= =20 head with a bag if they appear in public immediately thereafter), or if=20 there's an exceedingly urgent but also exceedingly simple security fix. =20 These would probably be wrapped into the same Gentoo -rX bump. --=20 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