Branching libevent for EL-4

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Thu Jan 24 21:01:29 UTC 2008


On 01/24/2008 10:01 PM, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm planning to build libevent for EL-4.
> RHEL 5 has libevent-1.1a-3.21 (without disttag).
>
> What would be the best version to build to ensure a safe upgrade path 
> from EL-4 to EPEL-5?
> Would version 1.1a, release 1%{?dist} work?
>
[wolfy at wolfy ~]$ rpmdev-vercmp libevent-1.1a-3.21 libevent-1.1a-1.el5
0:libevent-1.1a-3.21 is newer
[wolfy at wolfy ~]$ rpmdev-vercmp libevent-1.1a-3.21 libevent-1.1a-1.el4
0:libevent-1.1a-3.21 is newer

Obviously 3 (from 3.21) > 1 (from 1.dist) so I guess your approach would 
work. But are you willing to loose the "3.21" from the name ?




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