Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 12:03, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> > Or does the -34 mean more than just the RedHat version number? The
> > Debian version is correctly named 2.2.5-6 where the -6 means that this
> > is the 6th release of glibc 2.2.5 for Debian,
>
> Just for general amusement: I run SuSE's glibc 2.2.5-38 which contains
> neither the questionable code in the original sources nor is there any
> reference to it in the patch set. Go figure.

This is getting silly. Does nobody here understand that the release
number is local for each distribution. Comparing them does not lead to
anything. If you want to find out run

rpm -q --changelog glibc | less

on a RH system. Don't know what other systems provide in this
direction. You'll see that the glibc in RHL7.3 contains a lot of the
code from the glibc 2.3 branch. It's not named 2.2.90 because major
pieces are missing.

If you still don't know that version numbers are meaningless for
determining feature lists you might want to consider going back to your
CS101 class and revisit software configuration management.

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