On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:15:57AM -0500, 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. Can one use whole numbers separated by a dot? (That is, use it in the way RPM interprets it?) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
