My thoughts on repotag

[Lance Davis]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> It still fails for branch-specific (i.e. dist-specific) fixes, where the
> least-significant portion of the full %release value is increased for
> rebuilds or minor fixes:
>
> 	foo-1.0.0-2.el5.fdr.1 < foo-1.0.0-2.el5.rf

but foo-1.0.0-2.el5.fdr < foo-1.0.0-2.el5.rf so it wouldnt be installed in 
the first place if you had those repos configured ...

priorities plugin solves that one

but I agree it isnt a 'nice' solution for end users ...

It could be mandated that repotag always comes last and is preceeded by a 
(default 0) build id

eg foo-1.0.0-2.el5.1.fdr > foo-1.0.0-2.el5.0.fdr

Surely what really needs to happen for this to work to everyones 
satisfaction is n-e-v-r-t


Lance


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