Re: [HACKERS] RPM upgrade caveats going from a beta version to RC

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:or development:
>   >>
>   >> That means the final release of 7.1 will be called 7.2.  Bugfix releases
>   >> will then be 7.2.x.  Meanwhile new development versions will be 7.3.x
>   >> which will finally be released as 7.4, and so on...
>   >
>   >Not in this life time ... we are not going to move to a Linux-like
>   >development cycle ... *groan*
>   >
>
> Harrumph!!
>
> Well, pick some scheme that gives a rational set of numbers for
> distributions.  The current one is only good for installation by hand!

We do, we follow the scheme as used by ... the BSD camp :)  Be thankful we
don't go all the way and use 7.2-RELEASE too :)



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