<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Tahoma'; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">> The policy doesn't make sense in the example I quoted if you read the<br>
> comments. Look where it says upgrade to 0.9.2beta3 yet the example<br>
> shows beta2.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I already told you that you need to bump the release to if you want beta3 to upgrade beta2. This is for good reason.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> I can see that what is trying to be done is to add extra numerics just<br>
> to make the numerics significant and then basically you can ignore the<br>
> beta, alpha, etc. But this is more confusing than helpful and its not<br>
> necessary to make things lexically ordered.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Actually not totally true, b comes after a, so an alpha package with the same release integer as a beta package would be upgraded by the beta package.<br>
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> The goal is proper lexical ordering so that rpm/yum is happy and<br>
> packages will upgrade correctly. And either form accomplishes this.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Yet the policy says dots and the policy applies to over 10000 packages already built in the Fedora and RHEL / CentOS repos.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>>-- <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p> Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rudd-o@rudd-o.com><br>
Rudd-O.com - http://rudd-o.com/<br>
GPG key ID 0xC8D28B92 at http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/<br>
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As he started to roam:<br>
"I'm a hologram, kids,<br>
please don't try this at home!'"<br>
-- Bob Violence<br>
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