On disttags
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed May 19 20:48:37 UTC 2004
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 19, 2004, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>
>>>On May 19, 2004, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>How about foo-1-3.fc3 and foo-1-4.fc4
>>>>>How do I issue an errata for fc3?
>>>
>>>>foo-1-4.fc3 (which is still smaller than foo-1.4.fc4)
>>>
>>>But this breaks foo >= 1-4
>
>
>>I don't follow. How exactly does it break?
>
>
> Your foo-1-4.fc3 won't contain the change made in 1-4.fc4, that
> is required for FC4, but must not be present in FC3.
Right.
> If a package requires foo >= 1-4, it's safe to assume that it requires
> that change, and 1-4.fc3 won't have it, so things will break.
OK. This is part of the minor pain that must be endured to start using
dist_tags. No one said it would be 100% seamless. I consider these
side-effects to be insignificant next to the major advantages that
dist_tags bring to the table.
In this case, multiple erratas must be released:
The package that *had* contained:
Requires: foo >= 1-4
now should be:
Requires: foo > 1-4
And release foo-1-4.fc3 and foo-1-4.fc4
-- Rex
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