Re: New Firefox vs. Up2date

[David Curry <dsccable comcast net>]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:27 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>  
>
> > The Red Hat Network Notification Tool (KDE Applet) tells me correctly
> > that there is a new version of Firefox available.  The version on the
> > nachine is firefox-1.0-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm, while the latest version on the
> > server is firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1.x86_64.rpm.  Nevertheless, up2date doesn't
> > report the new version as available for installation.
> >
> > Does anyone know why this is?  Is the new firefox worth hand
> > installation?
> >    
Is there a chance that 1.0-2.fc3 is a later version than 1.0.1-1x, or 
that the version on the server is more recent but not an fc3 rpm.  I 
notice that the name of the file you show for what is on the server does 
not include an fc3 identifier.