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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Help wanted: Re: bugs.kde.org rejects tonight's CVS as outdated
From:       Maks Orlovich <mo002j () mail ! rochester ! edu>
Date:       2002-07-05 15:24:54
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On Friday 05 July 2002 11:17 am, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Fre, 05 Jul 2002, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> > 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...
>
> do you mean that 0.alpha1-2 will be "later" than "0.alpha1-1" ? sure, but
> the revision tag is under control of the packagers, not ours.

I believe so; although the version comparison function is a bit of black magic 
-- there are some really bizzare versionning schemes out there; here, on my 
MDK Cooker box I have packages like vorbis-tools-1.0-0.rc3.4mdk; etc., which 
was vorbis-tools-1.0-0.rc3.3mdk before that... 

Thanks,
Maks..

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