"Len Morgan" 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
>> 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.
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 '7.
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
> '7.1-0.1b
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 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 d
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
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 a
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 f
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
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
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 < 7.1bet
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 y
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
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 installe
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