[CentOS] CentOS/RHEL versioning scheme?

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Lance Davis wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> 
> > I am a bit puzzled at the versioning scheme of the RedHat clone family.
> > 
> > RedHat seems to use integer 4, Tao and Centos does the same. If you do
> > 
> > rpm -q --qf '%{version}\n' -f /etc/redhat-release
> > 
> > you get '4'.
> > 
> > However, Scientific Linux uses 4.0, and that seems to me to be a more 
> > logical choise, since presumable there are going to be versions 4.1, 
> > 4.2, etc.
> > 
> > Is there any good reason for the version of package centos-release NOT
> > to be 4.0? It has a significance in automated scripts trying to work out
> > which distribution and version you are running, and it seems silly to 
> > treat the different RHEL4 clones differently.
> 
> CentOS uses '4' purely and simply to be compatible with Dag's (and other) 
> repos, whixch ae geared towards rhel using 4.
> 
> We used to use 4.x but had compaints that the configuration of yum was not 
> compatible with that suggested by Dag for rhel.

I hope it was not changed only for me though. (Although I would be 
honoured for having that much impact)

I think it belongs to the 'as compatible to RHEL as possible' clause.

Maybe Scientific Linux is not meant to be as compatible as possible, but 
more a product based on RHEL, maybe the numbers might even deviate (like 
4.1.1) ?

PS With RHEL3, TaoLinux was using 1. So you're lucky that at least 
everybody except Scientific Linux is using 4 now :)

Kind regards,
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