On disttags

[Rex Dieter]

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