On Tuesday 27 March 2007 06:17:02 Michael Schwendt wrote:
Questionable, albeit would serve as an ugly work-around. It would
defeat
the purpose of the dist tag, since if you reused the spec for multiple
branches, it would make the fc5 package obsolete an fc7 package.
And the dist tag is just a red herring here. The Version could just have
easily been bumped in say FC6 updates after FC7 releases giving you a package
in FC6 updates that is nv newer than what which is on the FC7 media. This
isn't a new problem, and it isn't an easy problem to fix. Working toward
making it easier to do a Fedora install and have it consider the available
updates at install time is really the right direction to go, as the update in
FC7 should be nvr higher than the same update in FC6. If you can get to it
at install/upgrade time it would prevent you from seeing newer packages on
your system than what is on the media.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora