Thunderbird updates mixed up in F14

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun May 1 20:38:39 UTC 2011


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Rather find and fix the bug that is the cause of this. There have been
> a few updates like that recently, again.
> 
> The 3.1.10-1.fc14 package is tagged  dist-f14-updates  already:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=241265
> 
> So, during the compose of the updates repo it should be pulled in.

The problem there is Koji's broken idea of "newest". For Koji, the "newest" 
package is the latest one which was tagged, not the highest EVR. (In fact, 
Koji doesn't process Epoch at all, so it can't even compare EVRs.) 
Unfortunately, the Koji developers refuse to acknowledge that this is even a 
bug, and have no plans to fix it ever. Fixing it would mean 1. telling Koji 
about Epoch and 2. using EVR comparisons instead of tagging dates to decide 
on the latest version.

To fix this particular instance of the problem, rel-eng needs to untag the 
obsolete 3.1.9 build so the 3.1.10 one becomes the "newest" also for Koji.

        Kevin Kofler



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