A silly question about our "FC" tag

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Nov 18 05:30:23 UTC 2009



On Nov 17, 2009, at 21:21, Josephine Tannhäuser <josephine.tannhauser at googlemail.co 
m> wrote:

> 2009/11/17, Itamar Reis Peixoto <itamar at ispbrasil.com.br>:
>> because renaming it will cause problems, for example.
>>
>> foo-1.0.fc10
>> foo-1.0.fc11
>>
>> foo-1.0.fc11 > foo-1.0.fc10
>>
>>
>> foo-1.0.fc10
>> foo-1.0.f11
>>
>> foo-1.0.f11 < foo-1.0.fc10
>>
>> rpmdev-vercmp foo-1.0.f11 foo-1.0.fc10
>> 0:foo-1.0.fc10 is newer
>>
>
> Imho your argument is obsolete, because we rebuild all Packages for
> Massbranching, so the release is in every new branch higher, than in
> the branch before!
>
>

Only temporarily. Quite frequently all branches of a package willsync  
up and be the same n-v-r where only the dist tag sets them apart.

--
Jes




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