I am using Rawhide, and I am curious about the git versions of packages.
For example, even though I have kernel 5.8.0-0.rc2, that kernel changes to the latest git version about every 3 days for me. Right now even my backup kernels are 5.8.0-0.rc2, but just an older git-version.
I see about 10 other packages on my install that are git-versions.
I plan to read and try to learn from the link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git
Anybody have any thoughts or suggestions in why some packages are git-versions and some are not ?
Or any other thoughts that would be of interest to someone curious of this topic ?
David Locklear
On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 08:45 -0500, David wrote:
I am using Rawhide, and I am curious about the git versions of packages.
For example, even though I have kernel 5.8.0-0.rc2, that kernel changes to the latest git version about every 3 days for me. Right now even my backup kernels are 5.8.0-0.rc2, but just an older git-version.
I see about 10 other packages on my install that are git-versions.
I plan to read and try to learn from the link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git
Anybody have any thoughts or suggestions in why some packages are git-versions and some are not ?
It is entirely up to the maintainer's discretion. There are various reasons for shipping an RCS snapshot as opposed to a release. In the case of the kernel it's just to get updated code more often than upstream cuts RCs.