-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 January 2004 08:08, Jesse Keating wrote: > epoch always wins in a version comparison. Package-4.2 with epoch 14 is > considered newer than Package-8.1 with epoch 13. For this reason, I do > believe you should set the epoch of the newer distro up by one. Correct > me if I'm wrong, but this will ensure that the package gets updated if > somebody upgrades from 7.2 to 7.3. Otherwise, since they have the same > name, the package wouldn't get upgraded. I don't particularly like > epoch, but since it's already in use here, might as well take advantage > of it. Ok, some folks have thwacked me upside the head with a big foam clue bat. Leave epoch alone. Just bump the build number to indicate a newer package. Take the existing largest build number for the package, and bump it by one for 7.1, by 2 for 7.2, by 3 for 7.3, etc.. Does this make sense? - -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (http://geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (http://geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACA8E4v2HLvE71NURAsd2AKCKWrLizAfuSeg1RF5IcUjwkyYcZACgsQC2 uayFw/zomx9zzyGC+P8OSWg= =mU+r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
