xorg from 1.0.1-9 to 1.0.1-9.fc5
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Apr 14 03:39:20 UTC 2006
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:49:27PM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Running yum update today on my fc5 x86 system I see that it wants to
> upgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg from 1.0.1-9 to 1.0.1-9.fc5.
> Quering the changelog of the proposed update rpm file, after simply
> downloading it, I get:
> * Mon Apr 10 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1.0.1-9.fc5
> - Fix small overflow that causes crash on vt switch on ppc.
> Patch by David Woodhouse (bug 187083).
>
> * Wed Mar 15 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1.0.1-9
> - CVE-2006-0745 (bug 185084)
>
> Is the "fc5" postfix to tell that the update is only needed for a
> particular architecture or what does it mean? In that case why does
> yum try to update it anyway on x86?
Well, "fc5" is "Fedora Core 5". I notice you use the exact same abbreviation
above. :)
There's no real standard for how updates like this are numbered/labeled;
"-9.1.fc5" might have been more clear.
In any case, "9.fc5" sorts as higher than "9", so RPM knows it's a new
version.
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