On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 17:14 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > The package has been rebuilt with a newer gcc and a newer rpm > > (stringer hash) so no its not the same package with a different name. > > Yes, and let me add that the ".fc10" and ".fc11" (the dist-tag) is part > of the package "Release" value not just the package file name. > That makes the .fc11 package "newer than" the .fc10 package > in RPM's view, which is particularly important if internally > it really differs from the .fc10 build (e.g. in terms of compiler > generated code, library versions, dependencies). Exactly: say that in Fedora 10 package foo-1.0-1 is built against libbar.so.4, but in Fedora 11 it's built against libbar.so.5 then you might end up in trouble with a distribution upgrade if libbar.so.4 doesn't exist in the new distribution. [I don't know whether yum is capable of handling this.] When you add the distro version into the release tag, you have foo-1.0-1.fc10 in Fedora 10 and foo-1.0-1.fc11 in Fedora 11, then the Fedora 11 version will automatically replace the Fedora 10 version. PS. I am not aware of any distribution without some kind of a frozen release system - even the source based distros such as Gentoo have stabilized sets of the base components. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
