fedora-release still at 8.90, 8.91?

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:32:11 -0500
Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:

> There are things (Install test tools and PreUpgrade f'rinstance) that
> might want to do version comparisons, such as:
> 
> # Support for stage2=XXX was added in F9Beta
> if dist.version >= 8.92:
>     ...
> 
> I suppose we could also do that by comparing the timestamps (and
> keeping a map of release -> timestamp).. but I'm pretty sure there
> are other tools that look at the release number to make various
> decisions about how to deal with the system.

Hrm...  s'pose that's a valid use.  So long as there is a valid reason
for munging the release number each time I'm ok with doing it.  I just
hate doing things for the sake of doing things because that's just been
done since before I got here and we can't change anything (:

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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