rawhide report: 20070721 changes

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue Jul 24 20:52:12 UTC 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:16:39 +0200
> Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> just wondering.. Alot of packages have fc8 in there name.. Why is
>> that? shouldn't it be f8?
> 
> No.  This has been asked a lot.  It stands for "fedora collection" now.

And also, we kindof painter ourselves into a corner -- "f8" sorts before 
"fc7" in rpm's version compare.  That is to say, if all other parts of 
the version tuple are the same, the "f8" is older than "fc7".

-- 
   Peter




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