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

[Michael Schwendt]

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?