Re: On disttags

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 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

I don't follow.  How exactly does it break?

> > 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.

That's what the foo-1-5.fc4 update/release is for.

-- Rex