On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:55:26 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers
<dag(a)wieers.com> wrote:
> Jeff, give an example where it confuses the version comparison or shut up.
Shall I construct an example using rpm -Fvh using packages using the
zork and zelda disttag thrown into a directory? the distrotags do
affect comparison if the distrotag continues to be a part of the
release tag.
This is of no value as I explained before. Remove both zork and zelda from
the release-tag and there still is no good reason to prefer release '3'
over release '2' since there's no relation.
Similarly how would you decide if zelda or zork should be used. There's no
logic to it. That's why the repotag is at the end, if it's up to the
repotag to decide what to happen it's already a lost case anyway.
Thus the release tag has little value if you have different repositories
without relation or coordination. And even with some coordination it may
not matter (as Michael pointed out).
Repotags are only involved when mixing repositories and in those cases the
release tag has limited use.
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