[CentOS-devel] Confusing package versioning

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu May 5 16:03:07 UTC 2011


On 05/05/2011 04:58 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
>>> 3. ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5_3.2.src.rpm ==>    ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5.centos.2.src.rpm
>>> 4. ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5_4.1.src.rpm ==>     ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5.centos.1.src.rpm
> Yes, and as a result CentOS released ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5_4.1.src.rpm as
> ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5.centos.2.1.src.rpm because you couldn't release it
> according to your versioning scheme because in this case it's broken.

There was also a patch issue iirc, dont have the details right now.

> But I wrote all this perfectly clearly in my previous mail, and you know
> exactly what happened so I don't really see the point of your question
> other than to avoid addressing the issue?

Not sure how you worked that out - where does it say that we cant and 
wont bump local release to make sure that packages are not of a higher 
EVR than whats already been released ?

Based on your assumption - we would never be able to do local fix's for 
anything. Sit back and think it through. There is a clear reason to 
create that .centos. differentiation. And if we need to to rebuilds and 
re-releases for a package, it will almost certainly have either an added 
element or a local bump in the element.

- KB



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