On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:06:41 -0400, Warren Togami wrote: > Tips for Fedora Package Maintainers when issuing updates. > 2) EVR Version Problems > ======================= > Currently F7 uses Bodhi (the Fedora Updates System) while FE-6 uses the > legacy Extras buildsystem. This can sometimes create EVR promotion > problems between the distributions. Example: > > 1) foo-1.2.3-1.fc7 > foo-1.2.3-1.fc6 > 2) foo-1.2.4-1.fc7 is pushed to F7 updates-testing > foo-1.2.4-1.fc6 is built for FE-6 > 3) FC6 version of foo is "newer" than foo in F7, because the FC6 package > went directly into the repository while the F7 package is only in testing. That's only half of the story. The EVR problems check-script considers F7 Test Updates and still finds way too many broken upgrade paths. I think there are packagers who don't know about bodhi yet. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
