Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:55:26 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> > Jeff, give an example where it confuses the version comparison or shut up.
> 
> Shall I construct an example using rpm -Fvh  using  packages using the
> zork and zelda disttag thrown into a directory? the distrotags do
> affect comparison if the distrotag continues to be a part of the
> release tag.

This is of no value as I explained before. Remove both zork and zelda from 
the release-tag and there still is no good reason to prefer release '3' 
over release '2' since there's no relation.

Similarly how would you decide if zelda or zork should be used. There's no 
logic to it. That's why the repotag is at the end, if it's up to the 
repotag to decide what to happen it's already a lost case anyway.

Thus the release tag has little value if you have different repositories 
without relation or coordination. And even with some coordination it may 
not matter (as Michael pointed out).

Repotags are only involved when mixing repositories and in those cases the 
release tag has limited use.

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