Michael Schwendt wrote:
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
Ah, I missed that the f8 version was "33.1.fc8", not "33.fc8".
> 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
:-)
Oh, well, guess I'll wait for f10 to have versions that actually look newer.
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