On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:23 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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?) I'd rather people didn't, as many will forget how RPM interprets it. ~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!
