On 05/04/2011 09:51 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 05/04/2011 02:35 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
Hi Johnny et al.,
I'd like to raise a query relating to recent package versioning.
For example, CentOS recently released the following updates:
httpd-2.2.3-45.el5.centos.1.src.rpm selinux-policy-2.4.6-300.el5_6.1.src.rpm
relating to the upstream packages:
httpd-2.2.3-45.el5_6.1.src.rpm selinux-policy-2.4.6-300.el5_6.1.src.rpm
which IMHO is confusing.
not really. the .el5_6 is the distag from upstream, for all centos mod packages since 2005 or so we've used the .el<blah>.centos as the disttag. Comes back to the whole argument of what is a disttag and why its there. Upstream uses it to indicate something - we just try and stay consistent with it.
Would httpd-2.2.3-45.el5_6.centos.1 possibly be more appropriate (albeit long and ugly)? Just for closer matching with upstream for people that are obsessive over such things? Or is the -45 really the main part of the release that anyone would need to focus on (especially in the case of a security update that addresses CVE-2011-xxxx etc etc)?