Lamar Owen writes:
One quick note -- since 'R' 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
numbers -- 7.1RC3 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with
--oldpackage if you have a 7.1beta RPM already installed.
Couldn't this
Lamar Owen writes:
One quick note -- since 'R' 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
numbers -- 7.1RC3 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with
--oldpackage if you have a 7.1beta RPM already installed.
Btw., are you aware
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Lamar Owen writes:
One quick note -- since 'R' 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
numbers -- 7.1RC3 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with
--oldpackage if you have a 7.1beta RPM already
Lamar Owen wrote:
Last time I looked at the documentation for the serial tag, its use was
strongly discouraged. But that _has_ been awhile -- maybe it could be
useful. But I would prefer the whole version numbering thingtobe fixed,
as the Debian packages have the same issue -- and I
Oliver Elphick wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
as the Debian packages have the same issue -- and I don't know if .deb
has an analog to Serial:.
We have epochs, that is, the package version is preceded by an integer
and a colon, which overrides every other part of the version and release
Lamar Owen writes:
Yes, I am, actually. But it seems a broken way of dealing with it.
Although I do have another idea, thanks to Trond. Rather than package
'7.1RC4-1' I could package '7.1-0.1RC4' -- giving a straight
versioning. I could progress from '7.1-0.1beta1.1' through
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Lamar Owen writes:
Yes, I am, actually. But it seems a broken way of dealing with it.
Although I do have another idea, thanks to Trond. Rather than package
'7.1RC4-1' I could package '7.1-0.1RC4' -- giving a straight
versioning. I could progress from
However, 7.1beta6 to 7.1rc4 to 7.1.0 would be an ok
progression, as 7.1 7.1.0, I think (saying that without having tested it could be
dangerous :-)).
I like this 7.1.0, it would also help to clarify what exact version is at hand.
People tend to use shorthands like 7.1 to refer to any
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
One quick note -- since 'R' 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
numbers -- 7.1RC3 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with
--oldpackage if you have a 7.1beta RPM already installed.
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
One quick note -- since 'R' 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
numbers -- 7.1RC3 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with
--oldpackage if you
The Hermit Hacker writes:
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
One quick note -- since 'R' 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
numbers -- 7.1RC3 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with
--oldpackage if you have a
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Oliver Elphick wrote:
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
One quick note -- since 'R' 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
numbers -- 7.1RC3 7.1beta1, for
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
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...
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
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 :)
If we had 7.1-CURRENT, 7.1-RELEASE, and 7.1-STABLE, the versioning
comparision would be just fine -- better than now. As it stands, an
upgrade
One quick note -- since 'R' 'b', the RC RPM's must be forced to
install with --oldpackage, as RPM does a simple strcmp of version
numbers -- 7.1RC3 7.1beta1, for instance. Just force it with
--oldpackage if you have a 7.1beta RPM already installed.
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