On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:59:55 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > While peeking at my list of orphaned packages, I noticed these, from f8: > > grub-0.97-33.1.fc8.x86_64 > hal-info-20080607-2.fc8.noarch > > In the case of grub, it looks like the f9 distro tag isn't being > considered as newer than f8 when the version is otherwise the same (bug?). Packaging mistake. In RPM version comparison, numbers are "higher than" letters: 1 > a 1 > f 1 > fc9 33.1 > 33.fc9 33.1.fc8 > 33.fc9 > For hal-info, it looks suspiciously like an f8 update postdated the f9 > release and is versioned such that the f8 is "newer". I guess the > even-newer f10 package will just "fix" this, but it's still strange. > > Any thoughts? Packaging mistakes. Such updates for older dist branches ought to increase the package release at the very right: 1.fc8 --> 1.fc8.1 --> 1.fc8.2 and so on, to stay "older than" 1.fc9 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
