Re: On disttags

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On May 19, 2004, Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> How about foo-1-3.fc3 and foo-1-4.fc4
>> How do I issue an errata for fc3?

> foo-1-4.fc3 (which is still smaller than foo-1.4.fc4)

But this breaks foo >= 1-4

> or better, release 2 updates
> foo-1-5.fc3 and foo-1-5.fc4

This breaks because 1-5.fc3 > 1-4.fc4, and 5.fc3 isn't suitable for
FC4 because it doesn't contain the change introduced in 1-4.fc4 that
makes it work on FC4.

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