f8 packages not upgraded by f9

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Nov 6 23:15:49 UTC 2008


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:59:55 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 
>> While peeking at my list of orphaned packages, I noticed these, from f8:
>>
>> grub-0.97-33.1.fc8.x86_64
>> hal-info-20080607-2.fc8.noarch
>>
>> In the case of grub, it looks like the f9 distro tag isn't being 
>> considered as newer than f8 when the version is otherwise the same (bug?).
> 
> Packaging mistake. In RPM version comparison, numbers are "higher than"
> letters:
> 
> 1 > a
> 1 > f
> 1 > fc9
> 33.1 > 33.fc9
> 33.1.fc8 > 33.fc9

Ah, I missed that the f8 version was "33.1.fc8", not "33.fc8".

>> For hal-info, it looks suspiciously like an f8 update postdated the f9 
>> release and is versioned such that the f8 is "newer". I guess the 
>> even-newer f10 package will just "fix" this, but it's still strange.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> Packaging mistakes. Such updates for older dist branches ought to
> increase the package release at the very right:  1.fc8 --> 1.fc8.1 --> 1.fc8.2
> and so on, to stay "older than" 1.fc9

:-)

Oh, well, guess I'll wait for f10 to have versions that actually look newer.

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