On May 18, 2004, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, exactly. In the case where that is not true, dist_tags are > harmless, so this shouldn't be used as an argument against using them. Not *totally* harmless. Wasn't there a problem in the way old versions of rpm compared say -1.foo with -1.1.foo? If you use disttags, and you have to patch a package such that the R number goes in between two R numbers that are already out, and you can't just append the build number at the end for the reasons Axel already exposed, and you can't add `.number' before the disttag, what do you do? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
