use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Jun 5 14:14:43 UTC 2007


On 05.06.2007 16:01, Axel Thimm wrote:
> [...]
> An updated FC6 will carry foo-1.2.3-5.fc6 and the ISO will not offer
> foo-1.2.3-4.fc7 unless it is forced by anaconda (like kernels). That's
> a feature not a bug, as otherwise you would suddenly introduce an
> already fixed security issue.

It would even bad in other situations as well; say foo-1.2.3-5.fc6
introduced a configfile change that foo-1.2.3-4.fc7 does not understand.
So you might end with a unworkable foo if foo gets "downgraded" to
foo-1.2.3-4.fc7 while "upgrading" from FC6 to F-7

CU
thl




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