Re: Package EVR problems in FC+FE 2007-03-22

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:49:57 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:02:10 +0100, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:23:34AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > In RPM Version Comparison, numbers are higher than letters. When comparing
> > > different packages with eachother, the %dist tag must be at the same
> > > position in the %release tag for all package releases, so the dist value
> > > is only compared with other dist values.
> > > 
> > > etherape
> > >   4.1.fc5 > 4.fc6  because 4 = 4 but 1 > fc6
> > 
> > Sounds pretty logical, 4.1 > 4. No need to care about dist tags at all, imho.
> 
> But you do understand that this makes the fc5 package newer than
> the packages for fc6 and fc7? 

And btw, it is compared like this:

  4.1 > 4.fc6

Not:

  4.1 > 4

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