Package EVR problems in FC+FE 2007-03-22
Michael Schwendt
bugs.michael at gmx.net
Fri Mar 23 12:52:04 UTC 2007
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:49:57 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:02:10 +0100, Tomas Janousek wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> But you do understand that this makes the fc5 package newer than
> the packages for fc6 and fc7?
And btw, it is compared like this:
4.1 > 4.fc6
Not:
4.1 > 4
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