[CentOS-devel] Confusing package versioning

Jean-Marc Liger jean-marc.liger at siris.sorbonne.fr
Thu May 5 15:03:10 UTC 2011


Le 05/05/11 16:48, Karanbir Singh a écrit :
> On 05/05/2011 03:40 PM, Jean-Marc Liger wrote:
>> It was. But the initial question was : for same sub-release for example 5.6,
>> could you have new or updated srpms, which wasn't in release/update 5.5,
>> to rebuild with two different dist tags for example el5_5 and el5_6.
> why would you be rebuilding the same srpm on 5.6 once its already done
> and released under 5.5 ? as I said already, the disttag isnt used in the
> EVR compares for new package EVR>  older package EVR

I understand that. My question is only for new srpms in 5.6, which 
hadn't be released in 5.5,
could we found differents disttags for theses new packages, i.e. el5_6 
and el5_5 or el5_else,
or the disttag is always el5_6 for theses new packages ?

JML



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