On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:49:27PM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Running yum update today on my fc5 x86 system I see that it wants to > upgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg from 1.0.1-9 to 1.0.1-9.fc5. > Quering the changelog of the proposed update rpm file, after simply > downloading it, I get: > * Mon Apr 10 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1.0.1-9.fc5 > - Fix small overflow that causes crash on vt switch on ppc. > Patch by David Woodhouse (bug 187083). > > * Wed Mar 15 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1.0.1-9 > - CVE-2006-0745 (bug 185084) > > Is the "fc5" postfix to tell that the update is only needed for a > particular architecture or what does it mean? In that case why does > yum try to update it anyway on x86? Well, "fc5" is "Fedora Core 5". I notice you use the exact same abbreviation above. :) There's no real standard for how updates like this are numbered/labeled; "-9.1.fc5" might have been more clear. In any case, "9.fc5" sorts as higher than "9", so RPM knows it's a new version. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
