Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt tmp0701 nospam arcor de>]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:59:44 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Adam Tkac wrote:
> 
> > And it could be danger because epoch could be
> > int8_t type (not sure :) ) and it could cause overflow when We hit
> > epoch 128 :)
> 
> No worries.  Sun's JDK rpms have had their epoch set to 2000 ever since they 
> started distributing them as rpms as far as I know :]

HylaFax used to do something similar to

  Serial: %{date +%%G%%m%%d}

;o)