version/release identification for packages

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Gene C. (czar at czarc.net) said: 
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>>There seems to be this desire to put oddball version/release identifiers for 
>>packages.  First, in FC2-T1 there was util-linux 2.12pre-3 being updated with 
>>2.12-4 but rpm and up2date consider the older package to be newer.
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>Hm, the first one really shouldn't have been named XXpre. That's
>a beta release, though, so, what's done is done. We'll try and avoid
>that in the future.
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>>Now, for 
>>FC1 the recent update for tcpdump has 3.7.2-7.1 being updated by 
>>3/7/2-7.fc1.1 but (again) the older packages is considered newer (and the 
>>same is true for libpcap 0.7.2-7.1 being updated by 0.7.2-7.fc1.1).
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>That's a bug. Please put this in bugzilla.
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and for the  announced  "fedora core 1 security-fix "  ??

    tcpdump, libpcap, arpwatch


i had no time to file a bug, i recognized it  ~ 3 hours later
  the message to the annouce-list  was being held
  an email to harald was send.
than i had to go to work, to late

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shrek-m