Re: rpm: alpha vs numeric

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Axel wrote:

> Best practice:
> o Version your rpms, so that this bug is not triggered. Therefore a
>  sane versioning scheme not jumping back and forth from alpha to
>  numeric segments is unevitable. See also the lengthy thread about it
>  with the disttags for the RH family finally recommended as
>
> 		    rh7.3 < rh8.0 < rh9 < rhfc1
In practice, one should never see the problem anyway.

Since only <=rh8.0 is affected, you shouldn't ever have the opportunity 
to be comparing versions of Fedora packages, so the
rh73 < rh80 < rh90 < 1
disttags are fine as far as I'm concerned.  Ie, the only time 1 with be 
compared with rhxx is when you are using Fedora Core (with rpm-4.2.x).

Am I missing something?

-- Rex