Help wanted: Re: bugs.kde.org rejects tonight's CVS as outdated

[Maks Orlovich]

On Thursday 04 July 2002 06:47 pm, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Don, 04 Jul 2002, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > There's a code version and a release name.
> > Feel free to express your opinion to the developers of RPM.
>
> For further explanation: for RPM 3.1a1 is "later" than "3.1". so people
> having 3.1 alpha 1 rpms installed would not be able to "upgrade" to the
> release rpms.
>
> Therefore you have to use a strictly ascending numbering sheme, although
> 3.0.6 still sounds a lot more stupid to users than "3.1 alpha 1". Thats why
> we call it "3.1 alpha 1" but name it still 3.0.6.

That's not neccessary; since RPM provides a way to overwrite the numbering 
using the Epoch/Serial tag; and another trick is to use the revision tags 
like 0.alpha1-1; that too will be handled right...

-Maksim