On Tuesday 26 June 2007 10:22:33 Brandon Holbrook wrote:
> Couldn't we tag all packages built *from this point on* with f8? New
> builds have to bump the EVR anyway, so 2.f8 is still greater than
> 1.fc7. The whole "f8 is rpm-less than fc7" argument is only valid if
> you assume no other changes to a package's EVR when being rebuilt, but
> AFAIK there's never been a package rebuilt in fedoraland where the
> disttag was the only thing that was bumped. Granted, that means there
> would be a mix of 'fc' and 'f' packages, but that's no more tacky than
> our current fc6+fc7 mix.
Many cases the same version-release were built on multiple branches.
frobitz-1.2 comes out and we want to release it across all of Fedora.
Therefor we can have frobitz-1.2-1%{dist} on each branch and it will
automagically calculate to
frobitz-1.2-1.fc6
frobitz-1.2-1.fc7
frobitz-1.2-1.fc8
Now, if we used your suggestion and made it just f8, suddenly the
frobitz-1.2-1.f8 version is /lower/ than the frobitz-1.2-1.fc7 version.
Broken upgrade path.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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