use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Jun 5 12:00:02 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 06:37 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 06:29:33 Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:45:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > The %dist tags assure a steady upgrade path on packages' EVRs between
> > > distros.
> >
> > That's a myth. Only R not EVR.
OK, ok, yes, you are right.

> > Unless it's a full online dist-upgrade, EVR path breaks easily.
Well, in practice, nobody will use a CD/DVD only Fedora distro.

> Indeed.  "proper upgrade path" can only really be achieved in the first week 
> of a new release. 
>
>  After that updates to the older release will go beyond the 
> versions in the new release iso set anyway.  Until such time as we are able 
> to enable doing Anaconda upgrades with the updates repo enabled this will 
> continue to be the situation.
Agreed, upgrading an online-updated FC6 to "FC7-DVD-only" won't work,
but I don't see why upgrading an "online-updated FC6" to "an
online-updated FC7" can't be assured.

Ralf





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