On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:55 -0500, Jima wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > > I highly encourage that you use integers in the Release field, and not > > whole numbers (e.g. use 3, not 3.206), because that is the best way to > > confuse rpm (rpm thinks 3.206 is newer than 3.21). We're not going to > > run out of integers anytime soon. > > Err, I think you kinda contradicted yourself there; I think you're > telling people TO use whole numbers, and not decimals. Unless my brain is > warping the definition of "whole numbers," which is also possible > (although a cursory Google suggests not). Yes. Whole numbers, not decimals. I'm allowed to get math wrong, it comes with my North Carolina School of Science & Math diploma. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Technical Team Lead || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!
