alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 28 14:42:50 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:40 +0100, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 11/28/2007 11:24 AM, Adam Tkac wrote:
> >>From BIND changelog:
> > * Tue Jun 19 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 31:9.5.0a5-1
>
>
> On a separate unrelated note, please do not append "a" to the RPM
> Version field for alphas. As far as RPM is concerned "9.5.0a5" >
> "9.5.0" which means you have to keep changing the epoch [31! wow :-(]
> The correct way is to have a 0.a. or similar in the Release field.
To be fair - bind's epoch getting to be 31 is the fault of a previous
"maintainer" of the package.
-sv
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list