Re: [Announce] XFS 1.1 Prerelease 2 available for testing

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

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).
> 
> 

-- 
Nathan