Package EVR problems in Fedora 2013-01-12

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:17:03PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:53:06 +0000
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > When I did the big OCaml codegen fix/update in F18 recently, I just
> > bumped these package versions in Rawhide, merged the change back to
> > F18, and rebuilt them only in F18.  The upshot is that these aren't
> > really a problem now and will fix themselves through routine updates
> > over time.
> 
> Why not build them in rawhide? The codegen fix went in sooner there?

Correct: the codegen fix was in Rawhide about 2 months before.

> Note that in the future to avoid this: 
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Minor_release_bumps_for_old_branches

I was using git merge to keep the F18 and Rawhide histories exactly
the same.  However now F18 seems to have been / be about to be
released, I'll switch.

> Personally, I'd say just rebuild them in rawhide, since people yum
> upgrading from f18 would hit this and rawhide doesn't mind rebuilds. :) 

I thought that F18 packages would override Rawhide ones if the F18
package had a greater NVR?  Anyway, it'll get resolved soon.

Rich.

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