Warren's Package Naming Proposal - Revision 2

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat Nov 8 03:31:29 UTC 2003


Jesse Keating (jkeating at j2solutions.net) said: 
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> On Friday 07 November 2003 14:49, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > Here is their release numbers : 0.8 -> 0.9 -> 0.10
> > How should we set the RPM fields without using epochs in this type of
> > versionning ? Is is a case where epoch is necessary ?
> 
> Does rpm actually fail on this?  My understanding was that it takes the 
> number after the dot as a whole, where as "8" is less than "9" which is 
> less than "10".

Yes, rpm should handle that fine. It's not done as a float comparison.

Bill





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