Finally a benefit of the version change
Finally a benefit of the version change
Posted Aug 8, 2011 9:52 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)In reply to: Finally a benefit of the version change by proski
Parent article: The 3.0.1 stable update is out
This won't work always. Distributions can and do backport changes or change the numbers (c.f. 2.6.32 in RHEL/SLES or 2.6.40 in Fedora 15). It is similar to the problem of testing for a feature or a bug in browsers. You can't do simple version checks and get it right typically.