Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:26:27 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:18 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:06:30PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:56 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:47:51AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >... > > > > > Packages are built in a chroot with the correct release installed. > > > > > > > > Then why would this break if they are being built against the correct, > > > > older, kernel? > > > > > > How could you build userspace "against a kernel"? > > > > > > sys_*uname() returns the version of the running kernel. > > > > We have a uts namespace, you can make the thing return whatever well you > > please. > > Hostname, domainname, what else?
Can't it fake the version number? - sounds like a useful feature :-)
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