Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Jun 21 23:08:11 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:56:07PM -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
 
 > I *wish* it made a difference. I did an upgrade am an left with a host 
 > of fc10 packages because the fc11 ones weren't considered newer.
 > 
 > For example people with updates-testing enabled on fc10 got a 
 > non-upgraded yum because the versions were the same (except for 
 > fc10/fc11) and it stopped working because python went from 2.5 to 2.6.
 
That's messed up. We used to check just before release time that this
situation never occured.  It should probably be added to the rel-eng
release checklist if it isn't there already.

	Dave




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