Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

[Jesse Keating]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 1:08, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:56:07PM -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>
>> I *wish* it made a difference. I did an upgrade am an left with a  
>> host
>> of fc10 packages because the fc11 ones weren't considered newer.
>>
>> For example people with updates-testing enabled on fc10 got a
>> non-upgraded yum because the versions were the same (except for
>> fc10/fc11) and it stopped working because python went from 2.5 to  
>> 2.6.
>
> That's messed up. We used to check just before release time that this
> situation never occured.  It should probably be added to the rel-eng
> release checklist if it isn't there already.
>
>    Dave
>
>

Not possible while we allow people to keep making updates to the older  
releases.  Those updates quickly become version ( not just release  
even ) higher than the static copies on the release medium and repos.

--
Jes