yum rpms in os and stable

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:00:20 -0600, Jeff Kowing wrote:

> I'm confused as to why at fedora.us there is a 
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
> 
> and a
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.1.noarch.rpm
> 
> How did that happen?  I understood the fedora.us package naming
> guidelines to mean that the "0.fdr" portion of the release tag
> indicates that the yum package is not in the core distribution,

It does not mean that.

> but
> clearly yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm is in the core distribution.

Fedora.us packaged yum as an add-on for Red Hat Linux. Later,
yum was included within Fedora Core 1.

> Further,
> since yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm is in the core os repository, why is a
> lower version, i.e. yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.1.noarch.rpm, even in the stable
> repository?

Because it has been published first.

> Just curious and trying to learn.  Thanks.

No problem.

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