tcpdump and elm questions.

[Jesse Keating]

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On Friday 16 January 2004 07:05, Christian Pearce wrote:
> tcpdump:
>
> The specs are exactly the same except for the release has a different
> distro version. Is this what is meant by Fedora Legact Policy for
> combining src.rpm's into one spec? Is this what we are going to do for
> Fedora Legacy?  Or are we literally going to have one package with one
> release?  And drop the distro version from the release.

As long as the tarball included in the srpm is exactly the same, and the 
only spec difference is the version number, then what you should do is set 
the disttag to be 7x.  You'll still have to build it specifically on 7.1, 
7.2, and 7.3, it'll just have the same name.

> This spec also has the epoch value of 14.  What are the implications of
> epoch?

epoch always wins in a version comparison.  Package-4.2 with epoch 14 is 
considered newer than Package-8.1 with epoch 13.  For this reason, I do 
believe you should set the epoch of the newer distro up by one.  Correct 
me if I'm wrong, but this will ensure that the package gets updated if 
somebody upgrades from 7.2 to 7.3.  Otherwise, since they have the same 
name, the package wouldn't get upgraded.  I don't particularly like epoch, 
but since it's already in use here, might as well take advantage of it.

> elm:
>
> What ever decision that is made for tcpdump should be applied to elm as
> well.  We have the same version of the code, 7.3 is one release newer
> and the changelog said it was a rebuild.

Then do the same as above.

> I am still working on verifying the tcpdump patch.  I wonder if progeny
> released anything for tcpdump yet.  I was told they did cvs and
> ethereal.

A friend of mine that has signed up for the progeny service (boss's 
decision, not his), but he's added me to an alias that gets the notices.  
I'll be getting notices of all the updates that progeny makes available.  
I'll let the list know.

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