[CentOS-devel] Confusing package versioning

Thu May 5 14:18:37 UTC 2011
Jean-Marc Liger <jean-marc.liger at siris.sorbonne.fr>

Le 05/05/11 16:02, Karanbir Singh a écrit :
> On 05/05/2011 02:52 PM, Jean-Marc Liger wrote:
>>> Look at it from a different point of view: there are el5_6 packages that
>>> were built on el5.5 buildroots,
>> Ok, the first packages of a new sub-release are built on the previous
>> buildroot.
> there is no connection to 'new' or 'old' packages, the release order has
> no mapping back to build order.

Is your previous statement was about CentOS or Upstream ? I understood 
Upstream.

>> For a new sub-release, do you have some new or updated srpms (unmodified
>> by CentOS) coming with several dist tags ?
> all centos mod packages have dist set to .el5.centos or .el4.centos or
> .el3.centos etc

My question was about unmodified packages.
JML