[CentOS-devel] Confusing package versioning

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu May 5 16:56:08 UTC 2011


On 05/05/2011 04:03 PM, Jean-Marc Liger wrote:
> 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 ?

depends on what is released from usptream, it will be either .el5 or 
.el5_6 or .el5_5

updates from a few days back had .el4_8 ( as an example ), even though 
el4.9 is released now.

- KB



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