fc7 should be f7

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Mon Jul 9 19:59:26 UTC 2007


Martin Marques wrote:
> Benjamin Lewis escribió:
>>>
>> As has been mentioned before, f7 sorts incorrectly with fc6, so
>> updates would fail to work properly.
>> i.e. f7 sorts before fc6, when it should sort after.
>
> Why?
>
> 2.1-1.fc6 comes before 2.1-2.f7.

Packages often use spec files that are the same for different fedora
releases.  And in that case, package-1.0-1.fc6 > package-1.0-1.f7,
which isn't a good thing.

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