version/release identification for packages
shrek-m at gmx.de
shrek-m at gmx.de
Tue Mar 2 21:30:43 UTC 2004
Bill Nottingham wrote:
>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.
>
>
and for the announced "fedora core 1 security-fix " ??
tcpdump, libpcap, arpwatch
i had no time to file a bug, i recognized it ~ 3 hours later
the message to the annouce-list was being held
an email to harald was send.
than i had to go to work, to late
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shrek-m
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