On disttags

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed May 19 18:35:01 UTC 2004


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?

>>or better, release 2 updates
>>foo-1-5.fc3 and foo-1-5.fc4
> 
> 
> This breaks because 1-5.fc3 > 1-4.fc4, and 5.fc3 isn't suitable for
> FC4 because it doesn't contain the change introduced in 1-4.fc4 that
> makes it work on FC4.

That's what the foo-1-5.fc4 update/release is for.

-- Rex





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