On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:51:07PM -0700, Michael Best wrote:
> I don't know about other package managers, but RPM definiately isn't
> restricted by this, you can have Version and Release and version
> respects going from 1.0 to 1.1
>
> So even if this package was 1.1.5 and you wanted to release another
> 1.1.5 with fixes you could package it again as 1.1.5-2 where the -2 is
> the Release.
This is really a note for the ext2/ext3 acl users - Andreas'
previous tools were at 0.8.x, we were at 1.1.4, I think.
And no package manager is ever going to consider 0.9.0 an
upgrade from 1.1.4, for example, so thats what that bullet
point is all about.
>
> Looks like a lot of good changes though.
>
> -Mike
>
> > acl
> > ---
> > * Jumped to version 2 to allow XFS users to upgrade
> > (Rationale: the XFS ACL user tools were at version 1.1.X, and
> > packaging tools like rpm, dpkg, etc. must be presented with a
> > greater version number to allow an upgrade to proceed).
>
>
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Nathan
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