use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Tue Jun 5 12:31:18 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:37:27AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 06:29:33 Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:45:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > The %dist tags assure a steady upgrade path on packages' EVRs between
> > > distros.
> >
> > That's a myth. Only R not EVR.
> >
> > Unless it's a full online dist-upgrade, EVR path breaks easily.
> >
> 
> Indeed.  "proper upgrade path" can only really be achieved in the first week 
> of a new release.  After that updates to the older release will go beyond the 
> versions in the new release iso set anyway.  Until such time as we are able 
> to enable doing Anaconda upgrades with the updates repo enabled this will 
> continue to be the situation.

Why can't the entire lifetime of FC6 updates be guaranteed to be < F7 
or future distros?




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