use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Mon Jun 4 19:10:01 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:56:46PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 14:45:55 Axel Thimm wrote:
> > kernel-1.2.3-4.EL5, small fix or simple rebuild (like your EPEL rebuild)
> >   => kernel-1.2.3-4.0.1.EL5
> 
> Actually we have to put the bump after dist tag or else there will be upgrade 
> path breakage.

Well, the above is actual practice in RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5, I didn't
pick the name "kernel" by chance ;)

I just wanted to demonstrate that we now have a natural non-mixing
barrier of the buildid and the disttag, and using a pure numeric
disttag will lift that protection introducing unexpected ordering in
many cases.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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