[elrepo-devel] Naming guidelines

[Phil Perry]

Nikolay Ulyanitsky wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 02:49, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>> Where module version information is available, we use it and then
>> increment the release as appropriate. An example of this would be my
>> (broken) kmod-sis190-1.3-1.el5.elrepo package using backported kernel
>> code labelled as version 1.3 in the code, or for kmod-alsa-1.0.20-1
>> based on ALSA 1.0.20.
> 
> The problem is that the same kernel module can have one version between
> 2.6.18 ... 2.6.32, but differ significantly.
> 

I guess so, but what should we do about that other than noting in the 
changelog which kernel snapshot the module was backported from. I don't 
see a better way if the module maintainers don't increment the version 
number in the source.