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Re: Xconq RPM's
- From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- To: Jim Kingdon <kingdon at panix dot com>
- Cc: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:58:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Xconq RPM's
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> > I am now labeling the RPM's with the snapshot date instead of
> > 7.5.0. So these RPM's are xconq-20031007-1.
>
> xconq-7.5.0.20031007-1 would be less likely to confuse RPM's version
> number logic. Or xconq-7.4.20031007 would also work (except that it
> wouldn't show up as newer than xconq-7.5.0-1 through xconq-7.5.0-3).
Yes, you are right. I think we should regard xconq-7.5.0-[123] as
aberrations. And since we are essentially talking upgrade paths,
perhaps the 7.4.1.<date> scheme is better, except that it might
imply (to some people) that these are snapshots for an
approaching 7.4.1 release instead of the 7.5 release. And
7.5.0.<date> may be confused as a post-7.5 shapshot.
My preference is to leave the just the date in the snapshot RPM's.
Perhaps I should pick different install paths for those, so that a
release RPM and a snapshot RPM can peacefully coexist? This would
also solve the version ordering / upgrade path issue.
Regards,
Eric