On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:30:31PM -0400, William M. Quarles wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > >- The real important bits get backported from the -rc release in progress. > > Thus, when a rebase happens when that -rc turns into a new upstream > > release, they get dropped as they're now included in the tarball. > > What do rebase and upstream mean, and how do they relate to FC/RHEL? upstream = a kernel from kernel.org released by Linus. rebase = updating the fedora kernel to base on a newer version. (ie, if Fedora is on 2.6.9, and Linus puts out 2.6.10, we rebase the patches in the Fedora kernel so that they apply to a 2.6.10 base) Dave
