Package EVR problems in FC+FE 2007-03-22

[Tomas Janousek]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:23:34AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> In RPM Version Comparison, numbers are higher than letters. When comparing
> different packages with eachother, the %dist tag must be at the same
> position in the %release tag for all package releases, so the dist value
> is only compared with other dist values.
> 
> etherape
>   4.1.fc5 > 4.fc6  because 4 = 4 but 1 > fc6

Sounds pretty logical, 4.1 > 4. No need to care about dist tags at all, imho.

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