On 23.04.2007 05:56, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:07:54AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > I would prefer a rebuild Even with deltarpms it's IMHO to much risk and overhead (slower dist updates due to more packages needing updates; reassembling the rpms also takes time) for a small gain. > > but if we are not going to rebuild all the > > packages with dist tags in future releases just dropping the number in > > "fcX" and instead using "fc" in all packages might just be better. $ rpmdev-vercmp 0 1.0 5.fc 0 1.0 5.fc6 0:1.0-5.fc6 is newer IOW: Changing it to be just "fc" does not work. Changing it to ".1" or something else that is higher then "fc<number of latest release>" would work. > The entire purpose of the dist tag is to discriminate between > two otherwise same version packages across two releases. > Changing it to 'fc' serves no purpose at all. Changing it to something like ".1" can get us rid of the confusion of disttag "fc6" in "Fedora 7"; see the thread starting at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-April/msg00395.html But yes, it's a kind of (dirty?) trick. > [...] @jwb (and brian, too): You mentioned that FESCo wants to look at this after F7 -- can you make sure it's somewhere on the schedule so it's not forgotten (and hopefully discussed early in the devel cycle)? CU thl _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
