On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:29 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le samedi 17 juin 2006 à 22:06 +0200, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : > > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 16:59 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > Why and when would they supply a package, which is in Core or Extras > > > already, with an incompatible version than what either is in Core and > > > Extras or will be in Core or Extras later > > E.g. because > > * legal restrictions prohibits Core or Extras to ship them > > * developers use repos to ship upstream snapshots for testing. > > The snapshot you're not happy about was/is shipped in devel, during at > most one week, and is perfectly dogfoodable Well, have a look into kde's versions in Core: 3.5.3-0.2.fc5 # rpmver 3.5.3-0.2.fc5 3.5.2-0.2.1.fc5 3.5.3-0.2.fc5 is newer # rpmver 3.5.3-0.2.fc5 3.5.2-0.2.fc5.1 3.5.3-0.2.fc5 is newer Now tell me how to recompile a package from the same sources, but with small local modifications (e.g. for testing a patch addressing a bug). 3.5.3-0.3.fc5 would do, but that's not a solution to the problem, because it's the V-R being reserved for the next official update. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
