[Centos] httpd trademark issue -- here it is!

Lance Davis lance at uklinux.net
Sat Dec 18 14:37:55 UTC 2004


On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Rick Graves wrote:

> Lance,
> 
> > 'non-contiguous number component' ????
> 
> Compare:
> 
> httpd-2.0.46-44.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm
> httpd-2.0.46-44.ent.centos.2.i386.rpm 
> 
> By "non-contiguous", I meant that the "1" and "2"
> digits are separated from the main version number,
> 2.0.46-44.  

but ent.centos.2 is the release number and is alphabetically later than 
ent.centos.1

> 
> But having quickly checked the code, I am wondering
> why the code made the mistake of putting
> httpd-2.0.46-44.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm in the 28 day
> lag directory.  (I will have to investigate more.)
> 
> > m-e-v-r comparison should have picked that up ...
> 
> What is a m-e-v-r comparison?  Please tell me more.

sorry - n

name - epoch - version - release

the way rpm works

Regards
Lance

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> --- Lance Davis <lance at uklinux.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Rick Graves wrote:
> > 
> > > An Apache update in November put the new gif there
> > in
> > > place of the CentOS gif.  This was fixed in a
> > httpd
> > > update early this month.
> > > 
> > > This server is on a 28 day update lag.  Just a few
> > > hours ago, yum automatically updated httpd to
> > version 
> > 
> > > Theoretically, the appearance of the more recent
> > > version should have blocked the installation of
> > the
> > > prior version, but the logic in the lag mirror
> > > software needs refinement (it is not expecting a
> > newer
> > > version to have a non-contiguous number
> > component).  
> > 
> > 'non-contiguous number component' ????
> > 
> > 1->2 is hardly non-contiguous
> > 
> > m-e-v-r comparison should have picked that up ...
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > Lance
> > 
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