F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Mar 21 15:38:40 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:20 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Dne 21.3.2012 03:56, Adam Williamson napsal:
> > Properly, it ought to be versioned grub2-2.00-0.1.beta2.fc17. (Or possibly
> > grub2-2.00-0.1.~beta2.fc17, I really dunno what that tilde is for).
> 
> The tilde is a debianism to mark a pre-release.
> dpkg understands version 42~foo as lower than 42.

Ahh. Thanks. So we wouldn't use it.
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