On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:31:59AM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Axel Thimm wrote: > > It would neither hurt marketing goals, nor any technical issues, but > > it helps a lot with 3rd party repos supporting more than just the > > latest release. Embedding (rpm-)increasing tags into the package > > release ensures sane upgrade paths (similar to some Red Hat errata > > releases like the kernel rpms). > > With the Epoch: (which went from 0 to 1 on the redhat-release package), > everything works out fine and is rpm-increasing. You have to do it for each package in a multiple concurrent release supporting repo that exists for multiple releases of RH. Read up this thread for details and examples. -- Axel Thimm physik fu-berlin de
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