On May 19, 2004, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On May 19, 2004, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
How about foo-1-3.fc3 and foo-1-4.fc4 How do I issue an errata for fc3?
foo-1-4.fc3 (which is still smaller than foo-1.4.fc4)
But this breaks foo >= 1-4
I don't follow. How exactly does it break?
Your foo-1-4.fc3 won't contain the change made in 1-4.fc4, that is required for FC4, but must not be present in FC3.
Right.
If a package requires foo >= 1-4, it's safe to assume that it requires that change, and 1-4.fc3 won't have it, so things will break.
OK. This is part of the minor pain that must be endured to start using dist_tags. No one said it would be 100% seamless. I consider these side-effects to be insignificant next to the major advantages that dist_tags bring to the table.
In this case, multiple erratas must be released:
The package that *had* contained: Requires: foo >= 1-4 now should be: Requires: foo > 1-4
And release foo-1-4.fc3 and foo-1-4.fc4
-- Rex
