yum rpms in os and stable
Michael Schwendt
ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Tue Feb 24 17:12:14 UTC 2004
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:00:20 -0600, Jeff Kowing wrote:
> I'm confused as to why at fedora.us there is a
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
>
> and a
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.1.noarch.rpm
>
> How did that happen? I understood the fedora.us package naming
> guidelines to mean that the "0.fdr" portion of the release tag
> indicates that the yum package is not in the core distribution,
It does not mean that.
> but
> clearly yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm is in the core distribution.
Fedora.us packaged yum as an add-on for Red Hat Linux. Later,
yum was included within Fedora Core 1.
> Further,
> since yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm is in the core os repository, why is a
> lower version, i.e. yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.1.noarch.rpm, even in the stable
> repository?
Because it has been published first.
> Just curious and trying to learn. Thanks.
No problem.
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