On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 05:40 +0100, thibaut noah wrote: > I think i misunderstand things on version numbers, thought 2:2.5.0-6 > means version 2.2... From what you say i have the feeling that i might > be wrong about this. epoch:version epoch 2 version 2.5.0-6 Go by the decimals, file version something *point* something, has to have decimals in it. I've never got a grip on why there's hyphens in the version numbers, though. The epoch is a kind of hammer to crack a walnut, when someone needs to force an "I am the greatest," when there is another package with a higher version number. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
