version/release identification for packages

[Bill Nottingham]

Gene C. (czar at czarc.net) said: 
> There seems to be this desire to put oddball version/release identifiers for 
> packages.  First, in FC2-T1 there was util-linux 2.12pre-3 being updated with 
> 2.12-4 but rpm and up2date consider the older package to be newer.

Hm, the first one really shouldn't have been named XXpre. That's
a beta release, though, so, what's done is done. We'll try and avoid
that in the future.

> Now, for 
> FC1 the recent update for tcpdump has 3.7.2-7.1 being updated by 
> 3/7/2-7.fc1.1 but (again) the older packages is considered newer (and the 
> same is true for libpcap 0.7.2-7.1 being updated by 0.7.2-7.fc1.1).

That's a bug. Please put this in bugzilla.

Bill